Presidential elections

President believes Poles able to build just and prosperous country

Darek Delmanowicz/PAP

Incumbent President Andrzej Duda in the last hours of the presidential campaign expressed trust that, together, Poles are able to build a just, prosperous and strong country.

Final day of Poland's presidential election campaign

Friday is the last day of the presidential campaign before the Sunday run-off election.

Most Poles want president to be independent from gov't

Some 48 percent of Poles say they would like their head of state to represent a different political party than the government and only every third respondent says the president and government should come from the same camp, a poll by United Survey shows.

Poland protests German media interference in presidential elections

Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek on Wednesday protested to the German Charges d' Affaires against what he described as the German media's attempts to influence Poland's ongoing presidential elections.

Opposition presidential runner holds slim lead in voter support poll

Forty-five percent of respondents to a July survey conducted by Kantar, said they would vote for the Civic Coalition's (KO) Rafal Trzaskowski, while 44 pct said they would support incumbent President Andrzej Duda in the presidential run-off vote on July 12.

German media is trying to 'help' Poles make the 'right' election decision, says Belgium academic

Professor David Engels says that German media is publishing “blatantly one-sided materials in which left-liberal politicians are portrayed as cosmopolitan heroes” against  “stubborn, insensitive and dim-witted peasants from Eastern Europe."

Opposition presidential runner calls for transparency on pardons

Poland's Civic Coalition (KO) presidential runner Rafal Trzaskowski said on Wednesday that the presidential pardon system must be as transparent as possible and appealed to incumbent President Andrzej Duda to disclose information about pardons granted by him.

President active till campaign ends but no room for debate - spokesman

The campaign route of President Andrzej Duda seeking re-election has been planned out, he will be active until its very end but there is no time for any debate with his rival in the runoff vote, Duda's election staff member Radoslaw Fogiel said on Wednesday.

Trzaskowski may lose key supporters due to holiday voter rules - press

Voters who changed their polling stations before the June 28 first round of Polish presidential elections, most of them supporting presidential challenger Rafal Trzaskowski, may find themselves barred from voting in the run-off, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports.

Nearly all expats voted in presidential elections

Almost 87 percent of Polish expat voters voted in Sunday's Polish presidential election, Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk said on Tuesday.

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