Modern Party MPs have joined the Civic Platform - Civic Coalition (PO-KO) parliamentary club. On Thursday evening, the club's first session with new members took place. After the merger, the club now has 155 MPs.
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Sławomir Neumann remains the head of the PO-KO parliamentary club, whereas the Modern Party leader Katarzyna Lubnauer has been named one of his deputies.
"We have a common club of Civic Platform and Civic Coalition. This integration is a process that actually started in 2016, we were getting closer. The recent meeting of out national councils clearly underscored this fact. We are integrating and we are marching towards the election together," Civic Platform leader Grzegorz Schetyna told journalists after the club's session had finished.
Only two Modern Party MPs refused to join the PO-KO club: Marek Ruciński and Radosław Lubczyk. The rest, 12 out of 14 MPs, decided the opposite.
The two now former Modern Party MPs say they are doctors and they plan end their political careers and return to their real trade. Lubczyk added that he plans to remain an unaffiliated MP until the end of his term in parliament.
The decision to join the PO-KO and Modern party clubs into one was made during last Saturday's meeting of national councils of the two parties.
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