Election campaign: Parties make Mobil before the presidential election in Poland

People stand on the square in front of the Warsaw town hall. They swivel red and white flags and call: “All of Poland is for Rafal”. More than a hundred thousand have come together from all over the country to support their candidates a week before the runoff election to the presidency in Poland: Rafal Trzaskowski, Liberal Warsaw Mayor and applicant from the head of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

A similar picture of a similar picture at Charles-de-Gaulle-Platz. Here too a sea of ​​white-red flags, only massive music penetrates from the speakers, and the calls are different: “Karol, Karol” and “Here is Poland!” This is where the followers of Karol Nawrocki, the non -party candidate of the oppositional PIS, demonstrate here.

Before the runoff election on June 1st, it is pointed on button: According to surveys, both candidates can count on 47 percent of the votes. Both camps hope to get something out with the large demos. Prime Minister Tusk wrote that the demo to support Trzaskowski had half a million people. The Onet portal came to 130,000 to 160,000 participants after the evaluation of aerial photographs. The PIS stated the number of participants at the Demo for Nawrocki with 150,000. According to ONET, it was 70,000.

Election outcome also important for Germany

Poland is a politically deeply divided country, and the result of this presidential election will significantly determine the course of the EU and NATO member. With effects for Germany and Europe.

Tusk needs the victory of his candidate Trzaskowski to implement his reform policy and restore the rule of law demolished by the PIS. The previous President Andrzej Duda, who comes from the ranks of the PIS, has blocked the most draft of Tusk’s government with his veto law. If Nawrocki becomes new head of state, he should continue this blockade policy. Tusk’s center-left alliance does not have the necessary two-thirds majority in parliament to abolish the president’s veto.

“The president was supposed to work with the government,” says the high school graduate Bartlomiej Morawiek, who came from Kraków to demonstrate for Trzaskowski. “We want to have a future, and I see it in the further integration in Europe.”

Wohlen around the right -wing extremist voters

Patryk Pilus stands for the national conservative candidate Nawrocki and holds his baby’s ears because of the loud music. “I am against Trzaskowski because I don’t want everyone to be in the hands of a political force,” says the 36-year-old programmer from Torun. It also annoys him that the TUSK government is deporting important projects such as the construction of a nuclear power plant or a large airport. He sees that Nawrocki has little experience in politics as an advantage.

Before the runoff election, Nawrocki looks sharply to the right. Because there is the most voters for the 42-year-old PIS candidate. The first election round revealed a shockingly high influx for two right -wing extremists. The 38-year-old entrepreneur Slawomir Mentzen, who scored with a Maga-like program (“Make America Great Again” was the election campaign slogan of US President Donald Trump), was given almost 15 percent of the vote. The anti -Semite Grzegorz Braun landed at more than six percent.

Right -wing extremist wants to play Zünglein on the scales

Both were eliminated from the race. But Mentzen now wants to play the Zünglein on the scales. He has invited Nawrocki and Trzaskowski to his YouTube show individually and presented his eight-point plan for signature. He makes his election recommendation dependent on that.

Nawrocki flattered Mentzen and at the end set his signature under his eight-point plan. Among other things, he undertakes not to sign an law that Ukraine’s accession to NATO ratifies to defend the national currency Zloty and not to submit any competencies from the Polish government to Brussels.

Trzaskowski, on the other hand, fought an exciting speech with mentzen and refused to sign its eight-point plan. It is out of the question for him to write off the perspective of a NATO accession of Ukraine, he said: “Putin only understands the language of strength. If Ukraine does not get any security guarantees, we are next.” Trzaskowski will now have to do without the votes of the majority of Mentzen’s voters in the runoff election.

Support from the election winner from Romania

The pro -European candidate received support in the demonstration in Warsaw from the election winner of the presidential election in Romania, Nicusor Dan. “The Romanian people rejected isolationism and Russian influence and chose honesty, integrity and respect for the laws,” said the future president and praised good cooperation with Trzaskowski. The pro -European Dan had prevailed on May 18 in the runoff election in Romania against right -wing populist George Simion.