I have the last votes and the session of the European Parliament ahead of me. There will be no further – PiS MEP Tomasz Poręba said on Monday. He added that he was leaving current politics.
Tomasz Poręba published a statement on the X platform on Monday afternoon, informing about his decision. “I have the last votes and the session of the European Parliament ahead of me. There will be no continuation. Almost a year ago, I made the decision and informed the party management that I would not run as a candidate and was leaving current politics,” he wrote.
He added that “it was and is a conscious and very well-thought-out decision.” “I leave with my head held high and the feeling that we have achieved a lot together in recent years,” he said.
“Everything I promised was achieved together with many fantastic people. No one can take it away from me. That’s why I’m leaving with a sense of pride, relief and joy. Having won all the elections and having the best percentage results in Poland. On my own terms,” we read in Poręba’s statement.
Tomasz Poręba – political career
Tomasz Poręba joined Law and Justice in 2003. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009.
He was the head of the party’s electoral staff many times – in 2011 during the parliamentary elections, in 2018 during the local government elections and in the European Parliament elections in 2019.
He also headed the PiS election team before the 2023 parliamentary elections, but he resigned from this position in June last year.
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In September last year, the investigative magazine frontstory, OKO.press and the Oštro investigative center described in a joint text the business Poręba started with his wife on the Croatian island of Korčula. He conducts millions of transactions and loans on the real estate market, which voters do not know about, the media revealed. According to them, Poręba did not disclose at least one of the luxury apartments in his asset declarations, and he underestimated the value of another by several hundred thousand zlotys.
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photo-source">Source of the main photo: Leszek Szymański/PAP
