If the forecasts of the polling institutes are confirmed, the president Polish outgoing Andrzej Duda, from the ultra-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, is expected to turn first on Sunday, June 28, with ten points ahead of his main competitor, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, candidate of the Civic Coalition (KO). But the election is far from won: the two opponents are given a perfect tie in the second round, scheduled for July 12.
The Europeanist Trzaskowski walks on eggs, reaches out to the conservative PiS electorate, promising to keep family allowances and avoids pronouncing on the issue of marriage for all. Populist Duda, who seeks to mobilize his grassroots, rural and Catholic electorate, and to flirt with the far right, brutally attacked the LGBT community, carrying a neocommunist ideology
, he said, which shocked the international community. To motivate the troops, the Minister of the Interior also promised a brand new fire truck to cities with fewer than 20,000 residents who would have the highest turnout.
I’m young, I’m tired of the governments of PiS and KO!
who have clashed for twenty years, gets annoyed Kuba, 21. Logistic student and private driver, he smokes while keeping an eye on his boss’ car, parked in the streets of Praga, a popular district of Warsaw. On Sunday, he will give his vote to Krzysztof Bosak, the candidate for the far-right coalition Konfederacja, nationalist, eurosceptic, Catholic, credited with 7% of the voting intentions. Bosak is a reliable type, I recognize myself in his values and his program.
A major challenge
Ania, 31, from the same neighborhood, has a preference for the left-wing Lewica coalition. But I will not vote for their candidate, Robert Biedron. I greatly admired him and I counted on him to bring new ideas to Poland, but he dropped his party, Wiosna, to become an MEP.
This English teacher will therefore support Rafal Trzaskowski: I think he will make a good head of state, and at least he will not shame us abroad.
The presidential election is the last national election until 2023, and the stakes are high: the president has a veto which blocks laws passed by Parliament. If Duda wins, PiS can quietly continue its conservative and controversial revolution. If Trzaskowski wins, Poland, which has been extremely divided since 2015, will be effectively blocked, and the two parties will be forced to cooperate.
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