On Sunday, Polish voters make their votes in a decisive presidential election, whose results are fateful for the future of the country’s middle government, as well as other issues such as abortion and homosexuality.
It is expected that the mayor of Warsaw, the European Union, Rafa Chaskovsky, will receive 30% of the votes, according to surveys, ahead of the national historian Carroll Naorotsky, who will win 25% of the vote.
This would qualify them for the run -off on June 1 at a time of very sensitive to Europe, with the continuation of the Russian -Ukrainian war, the rise of extremist right -wing populists and the tension of relations with Washington.
The polling stations opened their doors at seven in the morning local time (5:00 Greenwich time), with a nine o’clock in the evening (19:00 Greenwich time). The final results of the elections, in which 13 candidates compete tomorrow, Monday.
Since the coalition of former European Council, Donald Tusk, the authority in 2003, has been arrested by major government initiatives by national President André Doda, while some Polish hope that this immobility will be about to end.
The features of the election campaign
The election campaign in Poland, a member of the European Union and NATO (NATO), was largely focused on foreign policy to reveal a variation in visions regarding the nature of Poland’s relationship with the European Union and the United States.
But social issues also played a major role in it, as Chskovsky, 53, promised to support abortion and gay rights.
The Party of Law and Justice supported by Maurotsky, with repeated disputes with Poland’s Western allies and European Union institutions in Brussels over concerns related to the rule of law, and the party lost power in 2023.
Naorotsky, 42, shows his admiration for Donald Trump, and said that the American president told him when he received him at the White House earlier this month “he would win.”
The key to the elections may lie whether the supporters of Salavomer Mentin, the far -right candidate who is ranked third with about 12% of the vote, will be fired with Naorotsky in the second round.
Mentintene doubts the European Union and strongly opposes abortion and migrants, and has previously accused a million Ukrainian refugees in the country of using Poland.