MEP Grzegorz Braun, who walked away with a stunning 6.3 percent support in the first round of Poland’s presidential election, is making waves due to his outperformance in the polls. Now, the politician, known for his anti-Semitism, conservatism, and immigration restrictionist policies, could play kingmaker in the second round of presidential elections.
Braun now says he has a list of questions for the remaining two candidates before he decides who he’ll tell his voters to support.
“The Confederation of the Polish Crown supports transparency and honesty in public life. For this reason, we expect the candidates for the President of the Republic of Poland to provide urgent, clear and complete answers to the following questions relating to the most serious threats to national security caused by the actions and omissions of governments and presidents in recent years and decades,” he posted.
KO candidate Rafał Trzaskowski and PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki will face off on June 1. Confederation’s Sławomir Mentzen, who placed third in the first round, has invited the two candidates to a live YouTube broadcast this Saturday evening to answer a list of his own demands before saying who he will ask his electorate (amounting to nearly 15 percent in the first round) to get behind.
Meanwhile, Braun, leader of the Confederation of the Polish Crown, expects the eventual Polish president to be guided “solely by the Polish national interest,” writes the Onet new portal, and commit to “not sending Polish soldiers to Ukraine and not to transfer military equipment to Ukraine.”
Other expectations include “decisive actions to maintain the uniformity and national identity of the Polish state (…) stopping the Ukrainization of Poland, firmly condemning Banderism, and enforcing the exhumation of the victims of the Ukrainian genocide against Poles.”
The EU migration pact must be firmly rejected as well as the Green Deal, abortion (which Braun called “legal infanticide”), and compulsory vaccinations.
He then also targets the “institutional lawlessness” perpetrated by the state between 2020 and 2022 in healthcare, the military and the economy, including a demand to “punish” the guilty parties and “compensate the injured parties and the families of the victims.”
Lastly, the politician, known for his ultra-Catholic and anti-Semitic sentiments, demands that any presidential candidate address the exhumation in Jedwabne, “reject Jewish claims, and cease Hanukkah celebrations in the Presidential Palace.”
The Jedwabne pogrom of hundreds of Polish Jews took place early in WW II, 1941, and while an investigation, including exhuming some of the bodies, pointed to Polish perpetrators, leading to an official apology from the Polish president in 2001 and in 2011, many Poles, including President Duda, have criticized the apology, claiming the act was essentially ordered or forced by the German police in the area.
The ruling by Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance that the pogrom was carried out by local Poles is seen to have damaged Poland’s reputation, and Braun and others want more bodies to be exhumed to prove that Poles were also killed. A previous exhumation had been abruptly ended due to Orthodox Jews overseeing it who did not want the bodies disturbed.
Despite the IPN saying they would be open to exhuming the rest of the bodies in 2019, Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office decided against this, stating there were “no grounds,” according to Times of Israel.
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