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A Nawrocki victory would substantially diminish the prime minister’s domestic political capital,
Marta Prochwicz Jazowska of the European Council on Foreign Relations wrote Two days before the elections, a group of Russian hackers operating on Telegram attacked the websites of the Civic Platform,
Tusk wrote on X on Friday afternoon The services are conducting intensive actions in this matter. The attack is ongoing,
I am of course outraged by this, but not surprised,
Since 9:00 a.m. a DDoS attack has been ongoing on the http://platforma.org pages. The main PO page and the additional one, intended for campaign donations, have been temporarily disabled,
the head of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's chancellery, Jan Grabiec, wrote on social media platform X His goal is to reduce the polarisation we see in Poland,
said Agnieszka Pomaska, a lawmaker from the ruling Civic Coalition (KO) and a member of Trzaskowski's campaign team These elections are about whether we will be part of the West or part of the East,
he told a rally in the northern port city of Szczecin He is so European he has forgotten he is Polish,
said Marek Suski, a lawmaker from the nationalist opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party He was very well known, not only because he was very talented,
Paulo Rangel said during a break from campaigning for his own country's election, referring to their time together as EU lawmakers from 2009. He really became very popular... because he was a very easy-going person but at the same time he could speak five languages,
This is the result of Putin’s and Lukashenko’s actions to send to the border poor people who are not aware of what’s going on. Human traffickers are often involved. This is a NATO border and it simply has to be extra secure,
What is at stake in the election is whether the current government is going to be able to carry out its programme in full. One of the key things that has been characteristic of the political scene over the last 18 months is that the government has been essentially blocked in a number of things that it has committed to do,
said Ben Stanley, a sociologist and political scientist at the SWPS University in Warsaw The difference between liberal and populist parties should be that liberal parties treat human rights seriously,
If Nawrocki wins, it will certainly lead to the maintenance of the situation as it is currently with a hostile president vetoing or threatening to veto what the government wants to do. That will affect both the rule of law issues and also many of the elements on the government’s legislative agenda,
Together with Romania, when George Simion wins and when we win on May 18, we will build a Europe of Homelands, in which we will not allow the European Union to centralise and turn Poland and Romania into its provinces,
I didn’t think it would be necessary to remind all of us, especially my main competitor, that honesty is the most important thing, human decency is the most important thing, and selflessness is the most important thing,
said Trzaskowski, referring to a recent news story about his competitor Karol Nawrocki, an independent candidate supported by the opposition Law and Justice party, which ruled Poland between 2015 and 2023 In public opinion polls and focus groups, among all voters, including voters of the new left, there has been a visible anti-Ukrainian trend, which has social and economic rather than cultural roots,
said Bartosz Rydlinski, a political scientist from Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw I want to live in a normal country, I want my daughter to grow up in a normal country, in a country with a positive attitude, without any negative emotions. Poland deserves to develop, to be respected in the world and that is why I came here today,
Anna Szol, a 48-year-old entrepreneur, who joined Trzaskowski’s rally with her daughter, told Al Jazeera We will not allow ourselves to be centralized by the EU, and Poland and Romania to be turned into administrative districts [of the EU],
Meanwhile a victory of Nawrocki would also mean snap parliamentary elections and Poland moving away from its strategic partners in Europe,
said Mateusz Mazzini, a Warsaw-based political analyst
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