Three new senators were elected yesterday to replace victims of the Smolensk plane crash in by-elections which ran in tandem to the presidential election ballot.

Three senators, Krystyna Bochenek, Janina Fetlinska and Stanislaw Zajac, died in the presidential plane crash near Smolensk on 10 April. During Sunday’s first round of the presidential election a by-election was held to choose new senators.  

Alicja Zajac, wife of the late Stanislaw, will replace her husband in Poland’s upper house. She was unopposed in the Krosno constituency.

Deputy mayor of the southern city of Katowice Leszek Piechota won a landslide, supported by 245,000 voters. He will replace Krystyna Bochenek. 

The Polish Peasants’ Party’s Michal Boszko won a seat in the Senate when he took the central city of Plock. Boszko gained 132,000 votes, while Law and Justice’s Marek Martynowski and Poland Plus’s Tomasz Kaluzynski gained 127,000 and 50,000 votes respectively. Boszko will replace Janina Fetlinska. (mg/pg) 

Source: PAP

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