Poland votes in tight presidential election

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Polls voted on the presidential election on Sunday, which remains the allies of Warsa Strong EU and Ukraine or will determine whether President Donald Trump’s Maga movement achieved a rare victory outside the United States.

This choice is in the EU-backed Mayor Rafa trazaskovsky, who is approved by the government, and the hardliners supported by the opposition law and justice (PIS) party. The pair were voting on the neck and neck after Trazuskovsky won the first round of the first round last month.

The vote was widely seen as a Baluther for the right -wing population Maga movement, who supported Norochi and sent a senior official of the Trump administration to a rally just a few days before the vote.

On Tuesday, US Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noom called on Polls to “select the right leader” and described trazaskovsky as “the wreck of an absolute train.”

“You will be the leader who will bring Europe back to conservative values,” Nom at the Conservative Political Action Conference, near the Polish-Ukrainian border.

The victory of a Nororochi will turn the tide of a series of losses in Canada, Australia and Romania, and will encourage other Euroseptic and Ukraine-hostel leaders like Andrez Baby, who is hoping to return to the premiership after the autumn elections, and Hunger Vicer Aurgar.

Better performance than Noreki’s expectation in the first round vote was described as the “yellow card” of Prime Minister Donald Task, who apologized for his government’s flaws.

The task warns that a Nororoki President could throw his long-deserted reforms, which was blocked by the Outgoing President, Andrejz Duda, a PIS nominee. These reforms include the opposite of a judicial overhul operated by the previous PIS government that managed the frost PolandIts EU Fund. The European Commission released billions of euros after the task returned to power in 2021, but the reforms were still effective.

“Noreoki’s victory could be a refuge to return to a domestic political turmoil in Poland, and his main goal is to pave the way for Piece to return to power,” Piyoter Buras, head of the Warsa Council on Foreign Relations, said.

“It will reduce the validity of the government and shrink its room to exercise, which will effectively weaken the Polish Premier international position,” added the Buras.

Regardless of Sunday’s results, analysts say that this campaign has led to the ongoing defects through the Polish society and the ongoing anger at the political establishment, including opposition to the PIS.

In the first phase of voting, many younger poles tasks and its long -time political Nemesis, Jarosa also supported radical candidates from both sides of the political spectrum, who founded PI in 2001.

A win on behalf of Trazuskovsky will encourage the fragile alliance of the task and offer an order to accelerate the reservoir reform. However, the Prime Minister will be under pressure for delivery.

Before the Sunday’s knife-surge vote, the task emphasized that even though Naoroki became president, he did not call Snap parliamentary elections before the regular 2027 regular.

The President of a Trazuskovsky “” “” domestic and foreign policy will maintain the government’s current course, but it does not finish polarization and no war in 2027, “said Dorota Pieontek, a political scientist at the University of Poeton, Adam Miciwicz.