SLD names its presidential candidate

This year’s presidential candidate of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) is Magdalena Ogórek, Doctor of Arts, TV commentator, the party announced on Friday. “I believe in our success, I want to be a candidate of the all left-wing political parties,” she stated. “We are sure that Magdalena Ogórek is a symbol of generational change and consensus,” SLD leader Leszek Miller said. Ogórek tried to win a mandate in 2011, running from SLD lists. She used to work at the Chancellery of former President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and for Leszek Miller while he held the PM post. She is 35 and comes from Rybnik (Silesia).