Zack Polanski: Is this the left’s answer to Farage? Meet the ex-Lib Dem, ex-hypnotherapist set to lead the Green Party
For the next two years, the Green Party has chosen Zack Polanski, a 42 -year -old London Assembly member as the leader.
Former actor and hypnotherapist, who has been the leader since 2022, saw the competition of former leader Adrian Ramsay and another green deputy Ellie Chowns with a step that Nigel Farage could make for the reform and the green party they had previously made for UKIP.
He describes the political style as the “eco populism veren, who was the Galvaniz, and won him a victory against his rivals with 20,411 votes, while Ms. Chowns and Mr. Ramsay’s joint campaign received only 3.705 votes.
Mr. Polanski was born in a Jewish family who adopted his last name after moving David Paulden to England to avoid anti -Semitism in 1982.
When he was 18, he decided to change his name and adopted his grandfather’s original surname to show his pride in his legacy.
After grew up in Stockport and Salford, his early entry into politics was a member of Lib Dems, whom he ran for Camden Council in 2015.
During the EU referendum, Jeremy Corbyn was heckling because he could not fully embrace the Read campaign and made a name for himself in 2017.
In 2019, when he stopped in the seat of Westminster and London cities, he was elected to the London Assembly in 2021 and became the leader of the party a year later.
In his speech to green members, although he was not a deputy, he was able to give the party a more aggressive campaign style for cultural war problems such as trans rights as well as transfers.
In the war with Gaza, he became a strong critic of Israel and a supporter of Palestinians.
During the campaign, Dover released a video from Dover to ask for immigrants with a provocative movement to the discussion of small boats.
According to reports, leadership nomination, the figures increased by 8 percent of a new wave of members.
However, most of them left unhappiness with Sir Keir Starmer in the welfare deductions of the former labor members and the Middle East crisis.
Mr. Planski, as a leader, said that he would focus not only on climate change but on the wider problems of the left, and that he proposes to work with Mr. Corbyn’s new party.
Apart from politics, Mr. Polanski had a colorful career. Together with the theater company Diferencengine, he worked as an immersive theater actor, including appearances. Hollow Hotel– People’s rebellion (In the London Tower) and Peaky Blinders The immersive theater experience.
Mr. Polanski worked as a hypnotherapist. In 2013, a newspaper reporter asked for a hypnotherapy session to increase the breast size and body image self -confidence for an article in the newspaper. Mr. Polanski made the session free of charge and took part in the article published. He said that the article did not reflect the situation correctly, but he apologized for his participation years later.
