In Poland, where the conservative Catholic Church has a deep hold, an atheist is the first gay man in history to run for president.
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“Will we remain in this civilization of contempt that today’s rulers offer us today? ... Will we choose a Poland of dignity, a civilization of dignity, a civilization that unites rather than divides?” he said in Krakow. “We are afraid the way of the current government is not toward Brussels, Paris or Berlin but toward Minsk, Budapest and Moscow.”
Three years later, Biedron won elections to become mayor of Slupsk, a city of 97,000 near the Baltic coast. He faced critics from the onset, including those who called him a careerist for seeking the job despite living hundreds of miles away in Warsaw. In office, he took a pay cut and traded his mayoral limo for a bike, slashed mounting debt, and pushed the city toward renewable energy sources.
“His main activity as a minister of parliament was to represent homosexuals,” Michał Drewnicki, a Law and Justice member who is vice president of the Krakow city council, said in an interview. “Robert Biedron represents extreme left-wing views on moral issues. He is unlikely to convince most Poles because he has lost credibility.”
Around Krakow, the capital of one of Poland’s most conservative provinces, Biedron’s pitch is an especially hard sell. While thousands rallied this month at Duda’s reelection kickoff in Warsaw, Biedron drew no more than 100 supporters to a his news conference and rally in the center of town.“When Robert appeared on the political scene, it gave me hope,” said Magdalena Dropek, 37, a campaign organizer who is an administrative assistant for Maciej Gdula, a local Wiosna member in the Sejm.
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