On Sunday, the second round of the presidential election in Poland takes place. The battle between two candidates, who represent different political choices. Who will succeed today’s President Andrei Dunda in Poland? Polls predict a chest -to -chest battle between the liberal and pro -European candidate Rafal Tzaskovsky and the over -conservative, Euroscepticist Carol Navrotsky.

In the first round of the presidential election on May 18, Tzaskovsky had secured the first with 31.36% of the votes, but with a slight difference from Navrotsky, who scored 29.54%.

The outcome of the presidential elections may be judged by the course of Donald Tusk’s pro -European government, as well as the European perspective of Poland. Navrotsky’s victory would probably be the tactic of today’s President Andrei Dunda, who vetoes significant reform efforts, especially those that restore the rule of law. “First Poland” is his main slogan, which de facto brings him into conflict with Brussels. In addition, Navrotsky rejects the European Union’s climate goals and the “asylum package”, while expressing doubts about helping Ukraine.

Allegedly ‘loss of national sovereignty’

In the final straight of the election campaign, the leader of the super-conservative party “Law and Justice” (PIS), Yaroslav Katsinsky, from which Navrotsky comes from, once again resorted to the anti-German and anti-European rhetoric, from which he was released. Kacinsky accuses Tryzaskovsky of seeking an amendment to EU conditions, which would lead to a “loss of national sovereignty” for Poland.

The strengthening of the EU’s responsibilities would benefit Germany, which has “imperialist tendencies,” Kacinsky claims. At the same wavelength, Carol Navrotsky said on Thursday, at a pre -election rally in Katowice, that his opponent, Tzaskovsky, is only a “cowardice and barbaric of (pro -European Prime Minister) Tusk”, who allegedly supervised by German.

Does Navrotsky has a dark past?

For his part, Tzaskovsky “plows” Poland for the needs of the election campaign and raises the question: “Who is this Navrotsky in fact”, which PIS proclaims “Citizens’ Candidate”?

Navrotsky, 42, is a historian, originally from Gdansk. He admits that in the past he was involved in an “beating” hooligans opponents, but claims that it was just an event of “good fight”. Another unspecified case is the accusations that are being made against him, that he secured a public grant home, depriving it of a poor and addicted alcohol that probably needed it.

Finally, the OneT informative website claims that during his studies Navrotsky worked with a private security company that pushed women into prostitution, fishing customers at a luxury hotel in the Baltic Sea coast.

Navrotsky denies all these accusations, while his party supports him unconditionally. PIS chief Yaroslav Katsinsky even makes Tzaskov and Tusk responsible for “abhorrent and false attacks”, while downgrading the episode with beating, saying that at the bottom and herself, as well as his twin brother.

Hand Aid by Trump

After all, the PIS candidate has secured the support of the White House. He is proud of a photo of him with Donald Trump at the Oval Office. In an attempt to support Navrotsky, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had recently organized its annual Synod in Poland, with US Secretary of State Security Christie Noem to call the candidate Tzaskovski, “

On the contrary, Noem knitted the praise of the “strong leader Carroll” and openly called on the Poles to prefer the candidate working with Donald Trump to “secure a strong ally”. As commentator Michal Zulzinsky points out in the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, “the intervention of the ‘Plain Camp’ proves that the alternative Right sees Poland as a front in its world struggle against liberalism.”

The ‘riddle’ called Mencen

Another “bet” of the second round is where the three million votes will be directed by the candidate of the Extreme Right -wing Konfedracja, Slavomir Mendzen in the first round. After consultation with both Navrotsky and Jaskovsky, the 43 -year -old businessman did not want to indicate a specific candidate and called on his fans to vote “consciously” in the second round.

Jaskovsky hopes to win at least one piece of Meden’s voters, especially those who want less interventional state and lower taxes. However, Navrotsky’s recommendation was made by the obviously anti -Semitic and far -right Gzegoz Brown, who had emerged fourth in the first round of the presidential election, garnering a million votes.

According to TVN television network Barbara Bronzinska-MirroRska, “a chest-to-chest battle is foreseen until the ballots are closed, even 200,000 votes can make the difference.” She thinks that anyone who seems to win the first Sunday night, is good not to hurry to celebrate, because “the result may be different on Monday morning.”

Curated by: Yiannis Papadimitriou