Senator Mirosław Różański has left the Poland 2050 parliamentary club but will remain in the Third Way Senate group, considering joining the breakaway ‘Centre’ party.
Member of Poland 2050 Think Tank
Gen. Mirosław Różański, former Commander General of the Armed Forces, has been associated with Poland 2050 since 2020, when he joined the staff of then-presidential candidate Szymon Hołowni. He also became a member of the expert board of the 2050 Strategy Institute think tank.
In the 2023 parliamentary elections, Różański ran for the Senate as a Third Way candidate, receiving over 104,000 votes. He is currently the chairman of the Senate National Defense Commission.
New Breakaway Club
On Wednesday, a group of 14 MPs and three senators left the party and parliamentary club to form a new club called “Centre” in the Sejm. Among them are Minister of Climate and Environment Paulina Hennig-Kloska, MPs Ryszard Petru, Mirosław Suchoń, Ewa Szymanowska, Barbara Oliwiecka, Barbara Okuła, Norbert Pietrykowski, Elżbieta Burkiewicz and Aleksandra Leo, and Senators Jacek Trela, Grzegorz Fedorowicz and Piotr Masłowski.
MP Izabela Bodnar also joined the new club, having left Poland 2050 last July after reports of secret meetings between Szymon Hołowni and PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński. In recent days, MPs Joanna Mucha and Paweł Zalewski also left Poland 2050 but decided not to join the Centre club.
Różański’s Position
Senator Różański was not a member of the party but only of the Poland 2050 parliamentary club and the Senate Third Way club, which was co-created by Poland 2050 and PSL senators. He intends to remain in the latter club.
Różański does not rule out joining the newly formed parliamentary club “Centre,” created by former Poland 2050 politicians – 15 MPs and three senators. “I have not yet decided to join the new club because I have some questions about how it will function,” the senator said.
He reminded that as a reserve soldier, he cannot belong to a political party, though he admitted he is closer to Paulina Hennig-Kloska than Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz. “When there was a discussion about the future of the club and party, I was asked to speak on this matter and I clearly specified my opinion. I believed that Ms. Paulina Hennig-Kloska would be a better candidate to lead the party,” the senator explained.