- “ We have the same views. His common sense, normality, or other to the reality of the left, that is, all that destroys this world, says a young father with 3 young children.
- During the speech Mentzen spoke to the people gathered before the Białystok City Hall that he visited “a tourist attraction in Białystok — your toilet for PLN 430 thousand, which is the origin of inspiration for Rafał Trzaskowski, who pierced Białystok and put a toilet in Warsaw for PLN 650 thousand.”
- — So many young people here, children, even this is TikTok, this is TikTok's magic, but it's besides a large plus, due to the fact that TVP and TVN don't show it, explains the phenomenon of his faithful and adult voters
- “ Mentzen lost in my eyes erstwhile he started making specified a terrible attack on Ukraine. Earlier in the election he was the least evil, he says.
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Invader Sławomir
— This is what we will be covering up for protesting opponents — Mati instructs 5 colleagues on their way to the Bialystok Kościuszko Market. It carries a large developed banner with a dark image with a character with a glimmering look. Boys of age don't look old.
So the support goes more in favour and out of curiosity than in belief and worship. I can odor the excitement and odor of electronic cigarettes.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSławomir Mentzen's speech in Białystok was supported by Krzysztof Bosak
Białystok, Friday, 19.13 p.m. The presidential candidate Sławomir Mentzen is ready to enter the advanced right on a metre platform. The scene is set in front of the Town Hall, where the Podlaskie Museum has been providing collections with paintings of Jack Malczewski or Kossaks for years. 1 of the Confederate leaders after a three-time call runs into the platform. In front of him is simply a white, nearly armpit-high mouthpiece. It was followed by 4 Polish flags and wavy white and blue props with the inscription "Mentzen 2025", from the ground illuminated with white and red lamps. Professional lighting with respective lamps, 2 heaters at 6 degrees C, making it hard for journalists to photograph and evidence the hero of the evening. There are 3 rows of chairs in front of him. Over the heads of the drones. There are respective people employed by staff with photos and videos.
Before Sławomir Mentzen appeared on stage, he was supported by the Podlasie MP of the Confederacy and Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak. He besides spoke before the rally in Siemiatycze and Hajnówka. Meetings were scheduled all 2 hours.
Face Memory
— It's amazing that at all Mentzen meeting, the word for word says the same thing, without a whimper. Even Braun spoke only on themes, but spoke spontaneously. I've never heard anything like it. Sławomir even makes the same jokes — a reporter who was at all gathering in Mentzen’s territory is surprised. This is confirmed by the operator of 1 of the nationwide tv stations, although he notes that the day before in Sokolka he spoke longer due to the fact that there was no support.
The candidate for president and “future president of the Republic of Poland” - announces the moderator of the rally - runs into the scene with a leap: “Good evening Białystok! Let me evidence you, I'll have you as a memento — greets and hears the repeated applause “Sla-wo-mir, Sla-wo-mir!”
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok, 21.03.2025
— Thank you so much! Hi, this is Sławomir, and this is Białystok, not Zakopane! The last time I was here was in a European run almost a year ago — and he recalls acquainted faces erstwhile the cloud was hit, and by the end of the gathering respective twelve people lasted. “ I have been remembering this for a long time, ” she says.
It looks like the white-stock market, and it sees that more people gathered outside the Town Hall on Friday than almost a year ago. And he's been driving across and across since the beginning of September 2024. And he feels that he has already been everywhere, and “Poland knows how fewer people and much more Poland knows”. Towns and towns have seen over 200. And then he gives a speech to his supporters, adapted to the region, with a controlled time measured on a laptop hidden in a speaker. He looks at him repeatedly.
Martyna Bielska / OnetYoung men prevailed at the Sławomir Mentzen rally
— Half an hr of speech, then an hr of pictures, like so many people, says a man from Mentzen's staff. “ This is fire! ” he adds.
“Mentzen my idol”
The electorates and sympathizers of Sławomir Mentzen group in central Białystok Square long before his arrival. The overwhelming majority of youths are seen as underage. Women are in a strong minority.
— We here for a image and perceive a small — the boy speaks for 3 young men. “ Most of them are 14-15 years old, ” his colleague says, “but possibly a small more, due to the fact that 16.
— Then why are you here if you can't vote?
— To see it, due to the fact that it's an idol — in the background you can hear the track “TNT” by AC/DC band.
The election program is simply a small familiar, but the views are crucial to them.
— In short, his main request is to reduce taxes, fewer immigrants want to let in, says 17-year-old Igor and declares that he would vote for Mentzen in May. 1 of his colleagues doesn't have a candidate. He came here for company and took pictures of the others.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok, 21.03.2025
Several decades ago, the idols were the Beatles or the brothers Young from AC/DC, and even Axel Rose from Guns N’ Roses, whose “Take me home” keeps the crowd patient. Mentzen likes and listens to rock.
— However, it is specified an influencer, it records a lot on all social media and is very popular now. It is everywhere — they say and mention that they first saw a candidate last year on YouTube.
What makes Mentzen their idol?
— He's funny, creative, and he knows what he's talking about.
Martyna Bielska / Onetphotograph with supported presidential candidate
TickTok Magic
— I will gotta hide the flags due to the fact that my parent supports the Levite — you can hear from a young boy with glasses standing in the front row behind chairs. After his right hand, another very young individual with cells on. They're recording the candidate's speech. A group of young men surrounded behind the steps to the museum of Krzysztof Bosak. With their arrogant heads up, they look around. Before that, they listened to the words of their candidate.
In the back, the boys sit on each other's shoulders to see the main actor of the show. “Bialystok is simply a tiny town, we check what is going on, we want to spend any time with our friends, due to the fact that they can’t vote yet.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok, 21.03.2025
In 5 days Michael is going into adulthood. There is no candidate, he does not know who to vote for, due to the fact that he does not yet have an opinion on Polish politics, but wants the President's intervention in improving the existence of his homeland. “ Most people my age just came to watch,” she says.
— So many young people here, children even this is TikTok, this is the magic of TikTok, but this is besides a large plus, due to the fact that in TVP and TVN they don't show it, sometimes they invitation to Polsat and to the Republic. The net is simply a mine where you can break through, explains the phenomenon of its faithful and adult voters.
It's live bullshit.
Some of the fewer girls at Mentzen's rally came by accident, out of curiosity, due to the fact that they saw any confusion outside the fountain.
— We are powerfully opposed, so we will not say much,” says 1 of our 3 friends. “ We want to perceive to live nonsense,” adds Veronica and throws a massive look at the crowd.
Martyna Bielska / OnetGirls who don't support Sławomir Mentzen
— We want to laugh, we don’t like him at all, adding Dagmara.
— due to the fact that erstwhile various political questions are asked, after a while, he does not remember what he said and denies himself. Plus, he's changing his head like a Mentzen Five. You don't know what's actual and what's a lie. We have come to see a individual who is not fit to be a presidential candidate, explains Zosia.
Martyna, Dagmara and Alicia are at a rally to “wander around a little”. They're 15. They all declare they're not behind Mentzen, like their colleagues.
— We came out of curiosity to see what it looked like.
— He doesn't respect women, he keeps saying he doesn't remember anything, he doesn't know anything, he's not even a presidential candidate.
— specified a individual should know what to say in interviews. erstwhile he goes abroad and starts talking like that, it will be a shame, they say 1 by one.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok, 21.03.2025
Mature Bialystok, who stands on the edge of the left side of the assembled, came to perceive to what Mentzen has to offer. I'm certain he won't vote in the polls. In the Confederate candidate, he supports his desire to halt illegal migration and Ukraine's "overrated assistance" and to reduce taxes. “ So that young people can start their own businesses and grow alternatively than go to Germany for asparagus. I don't want it for my kids. I want them to be here and live safe — and perceive to what a young, charismatic candidate has to offer with the hope that the EU will not interfere with our elections, as in Romania.
‘Anticprobe propaganda’
— I have been in favour of the Confederate from the beginning, and I have persuaded my colleague to vote for Sławek — Marta's common opinion that the organization does not like women, powerfully denies. “This is propaganda the planet has never seen. Sławek, as the only presidential candidate, does not want illegal migrants, and we do not want to be afraid to go out in the evening or to walk with a dog, convinces a 37-year-old girl who carries gas with her for her safety, hoping she will never usage it. “For now, Poland is simply a bastion of normality in Europe, just due to the fact that we are a conservative, Christian country, a bit racist, which has saved us from what is in the West,” he says.
Martyna Bielska / OnetAngelica and Marta, the girls who will vote for Sławomir Mentzen
Her colleague has concerns that this state in our country may change if Poland continues to regulation the PO and the Left. In Białystok, they feel safe for now, but Andelika says that in the subway abroad she was the victim of an attack and theft by a migrant.
— Telling Mentzen is anti-female is not even comic anymore. It was known from the very beginning that if Sławek went up, they would drive him in, he says.
The absence of older people at the rally women see in the fact that tv shows do not show their candidate. They think if they knew who Mentzen was, they'd be happy to vote for him. Example: Aunt Marty, who lives in the village close Sokółka, where people have spent their lives voting for PiS. Now she will vote for Mentzen, and Kryszka with another friend too, due to the fact that his popularity is growing.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok, 21.03.2025
“Older people know precisely what is going on, and at least this thought on the table that the Polish military will send abroad. I am utilizing it, but not to send Poles to the front, to die for a abroad country where Ukrainians spit on our country and have more rights than we do, says Anżelika.
Entrepreneurs attract lower taxes
Jarosław and his boy came from the area of advanced Mazowiecki. The Confederacy has been "very pleased" for 2 years. In Mentzen's electoral programme, both see specified demands first and foremost: moving distant from backing and supporting Ukraine, banning refugees and caring for the Polish people.
To the 3 main and most frequently repeated Mentzen postulates in Białystok, most of the men questioned are besides adding economical issues and lowering taxes for tiny entrepreneurs, and that is what the owners of companies say.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok
Oskar, his parents and friends, are active, and it is not easy for them with the rising ZUS and taxes. “These are the main problems,” a 25-year-old man served in the professional army for 2 years, of which a year at the border and he very much dislikes that any parties and politicians want to let everyone into Poland. — Especially since I have seen what people are trying to go through very often, and they are not families with children, and he points out that he disagrees with all the Confederate beliefs. The subject of abortion is considered "very slippery and substitute", due to the fact that in Poland we have more crucial problems.
Jarosław's chance to win Mentzen, however, does not see, but has a dream: "Everyone should win, but not Trzaskowski. There may be Nawrocks, although he says nothing in particular, and promises cheaper housing for young people, due to the fact that he will lower land prices. Those who know about it know that it is simply a tiny percent of cheapness, explains the senior.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSo, Sławomir Mentzen in Białystok, 21.03.2025
Junior Thomas has akin beliefs. He is inactive tempted to abolish the enrichment tax, which concerns cryptocurrency. — In Germany, it does not apply, and in Poland it does. This year there will be spades erstwhile young people can gain and the right we have is justified. “I besides have a planet view of being conservative, or Mentzen fits into my frame. From “Friday” Mentzen withdrew to get as many voters as possible and later returned to his roots “ Thomas at least hopes so.
“ Mentzen lost in my eyes erstwhile he started making specified a terrible attack on Ukraine. Earlier in the election he was the least evil, says Sebastian. He's 28 and he's an entrepreneur. Mentzen is tempted by economical demands. In another beliefs, the candidate does not see controversy due to the fact that he believes that specified “disgusting” is the action of the opposition.
Martyna Bielska / OnetThe message of the gathering moderator sounded like this: everyone approaches with the camera on
A fewer days marathon after the Podlasie towns of Sławomir Mentzen ended at 8:15 p.m. Protesting opponents didn't come.
