Poland’s presidential race goes down to the wire

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Poland’s Cliffhanga President Rafa Trazuskovsky and Korel Noroki held a rival rally on Sunday, June 5, at a rival mass rally at Warsa Warsa.

The competition has been updated by unexpectedly narrow victory of trazaskovsky First roundThe Warsa Mayor, a candidate for the Prime Minister Donald Task’s EU Citizens Platform Party, earned a two-point lead on Noraki, a historian nominated by the opposition to the right-wing law and justice (PIS).

The task has been campaigning alongside trazaskovsky, even though his involvement in polling seems to be increasingly hit. According to a survey by the government supporters outlet onnet, about 5 percent of respondents said that the Prime Minister could suffer from the promotion of trazaskovsky, and only 20 percent saw its involvement.

The election has become an informal referendum TaskWho returned to power after eight years of PIS Rules in 2023. The task warns that a Noreoki president weakens Poland’s position in EU and will endanger its reform agenda.

Trazuskovsky is closely bound to the task and has kept some blame for the government’s broken promises, failure to recover it significantly The right to abortion under the PIS administration is severely limited.

“Trazuskovsky is obviously involved in the task, and now a large part of the voters are only angry to the government of the task,” said Dorota Pionatek, a political scientist at the University of Poznar, Dorota.

Task acknowledged the frustration with his government, but argued that the yellow card was not drama “and emphasized that voters must realize the danger of maintaining the blockade of the Outgoing President Undergez Duda, another PIS nominated candidate.

An IPSOS survey published by the state broadcast TVP on Friday found that both candidates tied 47 percent. The result now depends on about 40 percent of the voters who supported other candidates in the first round.

Trazuskovsky faces a more rigid balanced law. In addition to warning him about PIS statistics policies, the Task government needs to apply to the far -reaching progressive voters to the right confederation supporters.

Trazuskovsky has also faced criticism for renouncing progressive positions on LGBTU rights, which made Warsha a liberal fort in accordance with the PIS Rules.

Despite the Noreoki, the personal scandal, the elderly PIS has maintained significant support for voters, who are especially loyal to the party’s 75-year-old founder Jarosao’s long-standing competition by Casisky-Task. Casisky handled Noreoki as a PIS nominee for the Presidency.

This month Norochi was in severe criticism for not publishing an apartment from a weak pensioner in suspected circumstances, but he rejected the attacks politically Inspired “false”.

“He [Nawrocki] Wazesich Jazaki, the main political analyst of the insight, says that the housing scandal has done better than what we thought.

Run-off Kingmaker Sawmi Mentzen has become a distant right Confederation candidate, who is in the first round with 5.5 percent of the vote.

On Thursday, Noreoki signed an agreement with Mentzen that he would not allow Ukraine to join NATO as president – this is a country as a law of sedition.

Trazuskovsky also met Mentzen on Saturday, agreed with some of his claims on taxes but painted a red line in Ukraine’s NATO membership.

In the first round, the turnout was a record 67.5 percent, which was conducted with high participation of voters under the age of 5. However, Politica insights warned that many of these young voters supported extremist candidates on the left and right who were no longer running.

“There is no interesting agenda for the youth of two main party candidates, so I don’t know if these small voters will agree to participate in the second round,” Jazaki said.

“I am completely shocked to see how close the vote is going to be,” said Malvina Naosilska, a 5 -year -old IT expert held in the Polish and EU flags in March on Sunday.

“There are many youths who are upset in the bipolar, but in the end they will realize that this election is important, hopefully for a Democratic Poland that is not strong and nationalist in the EU.”