The end of Poland Comes First?
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
18.08.2011 14:15
Wieslaw Kilian is the latest member of Poland Comes First to leave the parliamentary club, leaving the breakaway group without enough members to form a party in the Sejm lower parliamentary house.
Head of Poland Comes First Paweł Kowal (right) with the party's spokesman Jacek Pilch. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
Wieslaw Kilian declared his departure as the Civic Platform announced that he would be standing for the Senate in the upcoming elections this autumn from the ruling party lists.
In announcing the move, Kilian said that he wanted to make sure there were no misleadings as to his political aliegance and to proclaim “where [he] stands”.
Wieslaw Kilian was admitted to the Civic Platform parliamentary club by acclamation on Wednesday evening, deputy head of the Civic Platform parliamentary club, Slawomir Rybicki informed the PAP news agency.
The former Poland Comes First politician joins some of his former colleagues now in the Civic Platform, including Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, one of the founders of the fledgling party, Jan Filip Libicki and Jacek Tomczak. (jb)