Fifty seven-year-old Anna Grodzka could become the first transgender person to sit in Poland's parliament after a new anti-clerical party landed an unprecedented third place finish in the nation's parliamentary election. Grodzka tops the Palikot Movement party list in the devoutly Catholic southern city of Krakow and is expressing delight at the powerful result at the polls. "I'm not yet sure if I've been elected, but I'm very happy with the result scored by the Palikot movement," she said at election night celebrations. "If I'll be elected in Krakow, I'll be Poland's first transgender woman, and the only transgender MP not only in Poland, but the entire world," she said. "In New Zealand, there was Georgina Beyer, but she is no longer an MP since 2007," Ms Grodzka added. "Today, Poland is changing. I am the proof along with Robert Biedron, a homosexual and the head of an anti-homophobia campaign who ran for office in Gdynia," she added. Her party wants to liberalise Poland's abortion law, provide free access to contraception and legalisesoft drugs and gay marriage. It scored 10.1 per cent in an exit poll with a 1.5 per cent margin of error.
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First published: Tuesday, 11th October 2011 - 6:16pm