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This is the greatest success in the history of our political camp,
Mentzen said
We must win these elections to prevent one political camp's monopoly of power,
Nawrocki, 42, struck a defiant tone ... he said
This result shows... how determined we have to be, how much work lies ahead of us,
Trzaskowski, 53, told supporters in the southeastern town of SandomierzWe need to talk to everyone, arguments are the most important. I am glad that many young people went to vote, but the big challenge is to convince them to vote for me,
Trzaskowski told reporters
My social agenda and the fact that I will be the guardian of the social achievements of the Law and Justice government and the Solidarity (trade union) make it an offer also for left-wing, socially sensitive circles,
he saidWe are going for victory. I said that it would be close and it is close,
Trzaskowski told supporters
The stakes are enormous for the ruling coalition and for those concerned with the future of Polish democracy,
Jacek Kucharczyk, president of the Institute of Public Affairs, a Warsaw thinktank, told the Associated Press
It’s hard to govern alongside a hostile president, with all those vetoes,
he told parliamentWe’re going to see pretty much cacophonous signals to all possible voters of other candidates bar Nawrocki,
Rydliński said
From the old days of my family, God, Honor and Fatherland are the most important. And that’s why I’m with Mr. Nawrocki.”
Another Nawrocki supporter, Irena Kuczyńska, 79, shared her view
Rafał Trzaskowski is a competent person, he knows languages, so he will try to get along with everyone,
she saidWith Nawrocki as president, the government would be paralysed, and that could eventually lead to the fall of the ruling coalition,
political scientist Anna Materska-Sosnowska told AFP
I would definitely strengthen relations with our partners … within NATO and the EU,
Trzaskowski told state broadcaster TVP Info on FridayAbove all, I hope for the liberalisation of the law on abortion and sexual minorities,
she saidThese elections are about rights for women and minorities, rights for children and animals,
said Anna Rusztynska-Wolska, a 69-year-old doctor, after voting
They offer two diametrically opposed visions of Poland... a democratic, European, open, confident, honest Poland on one side, and the opposite on the other,
he said after casting his ballot in Warsaw, where support for Trzaskowski is particularly highThese are very important elections,
voter Marcin Woloszynski, a 42-year-old economist, told AFPThey are about security in the European Union and in the world because the more Poland is a country that respects the rule of law (and is) rich and well-managed, the better it will be for all of us,
she saidYou will win" when they met at the White House earlier this month
He saidPeople are quite exhausted with that duopoly. It’s effectively been the same battle with different avatars standing in the place of party leaders Tusk and Kaczyński for 20 years,
Aleks Szczerbiak, a professor of politics at the University of Sussex, told the Guardian