Warsaw (dpa -AfX) – A high turnout is emerging in the presidential election in Poland. By the afternoon, more than 50 percent of those entitled to vote made their vote, as the election commission in Warsaw announced. That was almost three percentage points more than at the same time in the past presidential election 2020.
Around 29 million people are entitled to vote in Poland. The incumbent head of state Andrzej Duda cannot compete again after two terms. Twelve men and a woman apply for his successor.
The Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski (53), who goes into the race for the Liberal -Conservative Citizens’ Coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The independent historian Karol Nawrocki (42), which was set up by the national conservative PIS, is in second place. A runoff election of the two candidates with the most votes in two weeks is likely./dhe/dp/he