Pro-EU candidate narrowly ahead in Poland’s first round presidential vote

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Rafa Trazuskovsky was supposed to be at the top of the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, which was run-off with a right-wing opponent that could unlock the reform agenda of the Prime Minister Donald Task.

The Exit survey suggested that the mayor of the Warsa and the ruling citizen Platform Party candidate of the task, Trazaskovsky, was ready to secure 5.5 percent of the vote than 20.5 percent more than Noreoki.

The exit survey was much stronger than expected, and would identify a significant injury to the Liberal Trazuskovsky, who was at the top of the election throughout the campaign and put a 5 -point lead against Naorochi on Sunday. Both will qualify for the second round vote on June 7.

“I won in the first round that I am very happy, but we have a lot of work before,” said after the release of the Trazaskovsky exit survey.

Hist was Tihasik and political external Noreoki Handpical by Jarosao CasiskyUltraconsvative Law and Justice (PIS) Party and the founder of the long -lasting Nemesis of the task.

Task is relied on a trazaskovsky win in June that the outgoing President Andrejz Duda, another PIS nominee to block this reform.

It could make more sight Poland Located as a liberal and EU counter -weight weight in this region. Warsa led the defense expenditure between NATO and Task, and recently helped the EU effort to remove the military resources of the block and President Donald Trump’s US security guarantee against Russia.

However, the IPSOS Exit survey, published by the original Polish Television Channels, said voters who could assist this run-off by voters supported by voters, who were third with 5.5 percent of the vote.

Casisky chose Noroki to widen PIS voters and revisit Dark Horse Vijay, then a relatively unknown lawyer who was able to unset an coming president and Task Mitra.

Power in Poland is mostly in the hands of the Prime Minister and Parliament.

In the case of an election of big policy debate, both Trazaskovsky and Noroki put Poland’s protection at the top of their agenda.

Noreoki claimed that he was in a better position to protect Washington’s continued military support and joined Trump at the White House earlier this month. However, the PIS candidate did not receive the clear support that Trump’s camp was in other recent elections, especially in Germany’s far right politicians.

Trazuskovsky faces the challenge of combining progressive voters in the second round, especially among women who played a helpful role in winning the 2021 parliamentary elections in the task, when the turnout record reached 745 percent. Some of these voters have been disappointed with the government’s failure to overtake a nearest-Total abortion imposed by the previous PI administration in the internal disagreement between the alliance of the task.

Running Sunday’s election, Task tried to present Noraki as a Russian candidate as his PIS party also supported Romania’s ultimateist candidate George Simian. After Simion participated in a recent Noreoki campaign rally in Poland, the task said that “Russia is delighted”.