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01/12/2019

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At the Convention in Krakow, Gowin's Party Aims to Set the Tone for the Ruling Formation with Proposals Close to the New Middle Class
A significant correction regarding renewable energy sources and an investment impetus for self-generated energy production using solar panels. A very strong emphasis on clean air and quality of life in cities. Stepping into the European Union's shoes vacated by Great Britain. These are the main program tenets of Jarosław Gowin's Agreement party convention, which will take place in Krakow on Sunday. The leaders of the allied PiS party want to leverage the right wing's "urban hiccup" to more forcefully set the tone for the ruling administration. - The right wing won the local elections but with a slight, at least, urban hiccup. It's time for the Agreement, because our proposals can help the right wing establish a dialogue with city residents - Jadwiga Emilewicz, the head of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology and one of the Agreement's leaders, tells 300POLITYKA. - In this year's parliamentary elections, such a program can add 3–4 percent to the United Right's electorate, referred to as the middle class: entrepreneurs, scientists, officials, startup founders, and teachers. Without the support of a part of the middle class, it will be difficult for us to achieve an independent majority. Convincing these social groups to join the United Right is the role of politicians like myself, Jadwiga Emilewicz, Adam Bielan, or Jakub Banaszek: the first mayor of a Polish city born after 1989 - said Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin in an interview with Piotr Witwicki. - Our generation wants to earn more, but also wants to take care of its immediate surroundings - Emilewicz tells us. Hence #EnergiaMiast (Energy for Cities) as one of the three fundamental program components of the Agreement's convention. In this segment, the leader is expected to be Jakub Banaszek, the first mayor – as emphasized by Gowin and Emilewicz – born in free Poland, who won elections in Chełm against the united opposition. He is expected to discuss, among other things, deglomeration – relocating central institutions, without detriment to the quality of public services, to cities outside the center of Poland. - The Chief Environmental Inspector could successfully work in Krakow, as there is no more significant environmental quality problem anywhere else - one of the experts collaborating with Gowin's party tells us. In the Europe block, Adam Bielan, Deputy Speaker of the Senate and a confident leader of the right-wing list for the European Parliament in Masovia, is expected to speak. - Europe has found itself in a serious crisis not because of Article 7 for Poland. We want a new instrument: projects important for the European interest. We are actively participating in this. We want to replace Great Britain in convincing others about a unified European market and digital market, free economic exchange, because protectionism serves no one - Emilewicz tells us. Energia Plus (Energy Plus) is to be the prosumer offensive announced by the Agreement's leaders, meaning it concerns individuals who both buy energy and can produce it themselves, and in case of surplus, can "feed" this energy back into the grid, making it easier for distribution companies to connect such producers to the grid. Benefits in the form of tax relief are intended to encourage especially local governments and their companies. The prices of photovoltaic installations have already fallen and will have increasing tax incentives – we hear from the announcements of the Agreement's leaders.