Whenever Rafał Trzaskowski took the level in his election staff after announcing the exit poll results, courageously said, “We have won”. And he encouraged to chant “Gosia”, “in honor of the first lady”. He thanked the staff, and although he spoke like a winner, we saw that he knew nothing yet.
Karol Nawrocki argued in his speech after the polls were announced that tonight the score would be different, and warmed to chant “we will win”.
None of the candidates can sleep peacefully. Both thank you and are convinced they did great. We all know that by morning, anything can happen, and the exit poll will not be the consequence of the second circular of the presidential election.
Jakub Majmurek recalled during the political criticism electoral evening that pollsters frequently heard a refusal, and these refusals may be voices of Nawrocki supporters who may have little assurance in the state institutions; right-wing voters who do not trust Donald Tusk's government. Anti-government and anti-establishment emotions will stay with us after these elections.
We have 3 right hands: the Law and Justice is the largest and has the top resources, but present the most vibrant environment is the Confederate, and inactive is extreme right à la Grzegorz Braun. These right hands will stay with us. "Nawrocks may turn out to be a Confederate Trojan horse in the PiS" commented aptly at the election evening of KP Jakub Majmurek.
The State Electoral Commission stated that attendance by 12 was 24.83 percent and by 17 – a evidence 54.91 percent. According to exit poll attendance was 72.8 percent. This was little than in the 2023 parliamentary election (then it was 74.38 percent). However, everything inactive points to the fact that erstwhile it comes to attendance in the presidential election, the evidence was dropped today.
Record attendance means a strong mandate for the winner. We elect the president in direct elections, and it has always given the President, whose competences resulting from his post are not a large, unique symbolic position. This time this position will be even stronger.
In addition, the attendance evidence means that there will be a record-breaking number of voters who have voted for a candidate who will not be elected and so voters disappointed with the results. Although Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki celebrated moderately on a Sunday evening, and clearly addressed their words to their voters, political partners, friends. Will any of them be able to talk to the voters of a competitor?
During the election evening, Olena Babakova powerfully criticized the anti-Ukrainian phrase in the Polish public debate and politics. And this is definitely a subject that needs reflection after the elections.
No substance who turns out to be the winner in the morning, the biggest losers present are Polish-Ukrainian relations. The question remains whether president Trzaskowski will gotta rebuild them (with the aid of civilian society, which he has unfortunately disappointed) whether president Nawrocki will inflame the situation and rebuild relations with Ukrainians and Ukrainians, our neighbours and neighbours, it is on the shoulders of civilian society.
