The two Polish President run-off candidates:
Guy on the left is from the standard European conservative party, soft-euroskeptics. Guy on the right is current President and from the Christian Democrat equivalents, pro-europe.
The Democratic Left Alliance (which in the early 2000s had 200 seats in the Sejm, 75/100 in the Senate and the Presidency) candidate got only 2% of the vote, despite this:
Best candidate was this dude, from the social conservative, euroskeptic Congress of the New Right:
He had some compelling progressive ideas:
In an interview with The Telegraph, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who is a rank outsider in Sunday’s presidential poll, said that child abusers should be “very severely punished” but said that pornography created without child abuse should be legal. He also claimed that Margaret Thatcher once told him that it would be better for women if they did not have the vote.
“I can buy pornography at home, I can look at it, I can even have child pornography on my computer – why not, it’s my computer, my home, and I can look,” he said.
“I very strongly object to abuse of children, but that has nothing to do with child pornography. If you create child pornography absolutely in the computer without any child being abused, is it OK or not? It should not be punished. Looking at that is not punishable, it is punishable to abuse children. The founding fathers of the United States would be shocked that somebody can be punished for keeping and looking at something in his own home, it is absolutely against the American constitution.”
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Mr Korwin-Mikke said that relations with Ukip were strained as Mr Farage’s party is “very egotistical,” and by pushing for the UK to leave the EU, risks “leaving [Poland] at the mercy of the Germans and French”.
“In Europe unfortunately it’s the fascists who are triumphing all the time. I sit in the European Parliament, and it looks like Adolf Hitler is still alive, the only difference is that it isn’t anti-Semitic. The idea of the government, state intervention, control of everything, even forbidding the smoking of cigarettes – it’s also the programme of Adolf Hitler. The EU is just a new edition of Adolf Hitler.”
Repeatedly referring to the state as a “slave owner”, Mr Korwin-Mikke argues that all social benefits should be scrapped, and argues that this would stop migrants risking drowning in the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
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“I talked to Lady Thatcher several time and she said it is not good for women that women have the right to vote, because women vote for men,” he said, claiming that Thatcher had said that if more of the MPs voting in the Conservative leadership election in 1975 had been women, she would never have become Prime Minister.
Robin Harris, a former Thatcher aide who has written a biography of her, told The Telegraph that he didn’t believe that the former British Prime Minister would have said that she thought women should not have the vote, saying that “it sounds like garbage to me”.
Asked if he agreed that it would be better for women not to have the vote Mr Korwin-Mikke said: “Of course! Women don’t vote for women.”
Giggling, he added that his mainstream leftist rival Magdalena Ogorek – dubbed “Poland’s most beautiful Presidential candidate” by a Russia Today subsidiary – would be polling considerably higher if only men had the vote.
