NEWS

20/01/2020

07:52

Arłukowicz on withdrawing from the PO leadership race: This decision is rational. I made it so the elections could conclude in the first round and we could quickly move on to the presidential elections.

Michał Olech

- No, not a loser. This decision [to withdraw from running for PO leadership] is a very rational decision. Because I believe that the raison d'état for Civic Platform is for us to win the presidential elections. At a time when so many candidates are running, I made the decision so that these elections could conclude in the first round and so that we could all move forward as quickly as possible, so that we don't occupy ourselves with each other, so that we move on to the presidential elections; it is a rational decision that someone must withdraw. I made this decision - stated Bartosz Arłukowicz in an interview with Konrad Piasecki on TVN24's "Rozmowa Piaseckiego". - There were six candidates [in the PO leadership elections]. I considered that if six people were competing with each other until the last day of the elections, the chance of these elections concluding in the first round is minimal. In my assessment, it is high [that they will conclude in the first round]. I emphasized in my message, my appeal to my colleagues in the party, that it is crucial to conclude the elections in the first round, and through this path, today in the studio, I also ask my colleagues from Platform to make a decision that will allow us to close the internal party elections issue on [January] 25th and move on to the presidential elections, because that is the raison d'état of Civic Platform - the PO MEP continued.

Michał Olech