The current president, Andrzej Duda, will not be able to participate in the elections as he has exhausted the maximum of two terms.
Jan. 8 () –
The president of the Sejm of Poland (Lower House), Szymon Holownia, announced this Wednesday that the presidential elections will be held on May 18, the date on which the European country will meet a new head of state due to the impossibility of the current president, Andrzej Duda, aspires to a third stage at the head of the country.
Despite this announcement by Holownia, the official call for the elections will take place next week, the date on which the 90 days necessary to be able to hold elections are exceeded after a state of emergency like the one declared in September due to torrential rains. that devastated the country and left ten dead.
Poland’s main political parties have already announced who their potential candidates will be. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition could present the current mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, whom polls place as the main favorite to win.
The Third Way and New Left parties, both members of Tusk’s government coalition, could present Holownia himself and the vice president of the Sejm, Magdalena Biejat, respectively. Polls place both far from possible victory without even reaching ten percent of support.
On the opposition side, the Law and Justice party (PiS) could present the director of the Institute of National Remembrance, historian Karol Nawrocki, wanted by Russia for facilitating the removal of Soviet monuments in Poland. Polls place him in second position with almost 30 percent of the votes.
The still president Duda will exhaust his mandate on August 6, the date on which he will be succeeded by the winner of the May elections, which could go to the second round if no candidate achieves the majority. Duda cannot stand for election as he has already fulfilled the maximum of two mandates set out in the Constitution.
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