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A tense and polarized political local weather. The three -way problem, for the presidential elections in Poland, is performed between a Europeanist, a conservative and an excessive -right outsider, respectively Rafal Trzaskowski, Karol Nawrocki and Slawomir Mentzen. Whoever wins would be the successor of Andrzej Duda, president of the city since 2015 who, having reached the tip of the second time period, won’t be able to run for the third.

There are 11 candidates, however solely three of them will compete for the presidential palace of Warsaw. The polls give the mayor of the capital favourite, the pro-European Trzaskowski (32%) adopted by the conservative Nawrocki (23%) and the far-right candidate Mentzen (14%).

Trzaskowski is a declared Eurofilo that he undertakes to loosen the legal guidelines on abortion and to guard LGBTQ+rights. Former minister of know-how and former vice minister of overseas, 53 years previous, he’s the son of a jazz pioneer and the good -grandson of the person who created the primary feminine secondary colleges in Poland. Elected mayor of Warsaw in 2018 and re -elected in 2024, on the 2020 presidentials he was defeated by measure by Duda. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Civic Coalition Party is supported by the Government Party.

Nawrocki, 42, is within the operating for the presidency of Poland with the help of the principle conservative occasion occasion, the proper occasion proper and justice (Pis), in energy from 2015 to 2023, of which the outgoing president Andrzej Duda is exponent. Nawrocki is a good admirer of the President of the United States Donald Trump, who met two weeks in the past on the White House, receiving needs for immediately’s vote.

The poll to play the far -right Polish presidential candidate Slawomir Mentzen might seem. The 38 -year -old multimilionary entrepreneur, highly regarded on social networks, is a Eurosceptic libertarian, firmly towards abortion and migrants, who desires to place an finish to a long time of political domination of the 2 important Polish events, the centrists of the Government and Conservatories. He promised the voters “a strong and rich Poland” with low taxes, a strong economic system and “watertight boundaries”. His electoral slogans additionally embrace the dedication to “stop the left ideology” and “free the cryptocurrencies”. In 2019, he mentioned: “We don’t want Jews, homosexuals, abortion, taxes and the European Union”.