(19 May 2025)
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Warsaw – 19 May 2025
1. Various street traffic with the Palace of Culture and Science in the background
2. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Piotr Malich, Warsaw resident:
"I have the impression that in polls Karol Nawrocki usually comes out as an underestimated candidate. For this reason, some people are also ashamed to admit that they are voting for Karol Nawicki at this moment. And I am absolutely not surprised (by election results)."
3. Malich passing by
4. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Piotr Malich, Warsaw resident:
"This is the choice of the whole vision of our country in which we want to live. This is the choice of whether we want to live in a country that is well-governed, that cooperates in Europe, that works in the world, that develops, or do we want what was, what was rejected on October 15 (in the parliamentary elections won by Rafał Trzaskowski’s party)."
5. Newspaper kiosk in the underground
6. Various of newspapers
7. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Malgorzata (no family name given), Warsaw resident:
"Neither one nor the other (candidate). I didn’t count on that. And how Poles will choose, so it will be. Everyone decides for themselves how they choose."
8. Pedestrians exit the metro, with the Palace of Culture and Science in the background
9. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Michal Brzezinski, Warsaw resident:
"Honestly, I was nervous because I thought Trzaskowski would have more support, and the difference was small, because it wasn’t even 2%, right?"
10. Various of newspapers
11. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Malgorzata (no family name given), Warsaw resident:
"Yes, I’m happy, I mean, I would like someone else to win, I mean, of these two candidates, one of them, I won’t say here, but I think he will win in the second round."
12. Street traffic
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Wojciech Przybylski, editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight, policy journal focused on Central Europe:
"For Donald Tusk, this election is crucial because of the inability currently to conduct major reforms he has promised in 2023 elections because the president comes from an opposition camp. And should Mr. Trzaskowski not secure this victory, this will spell trouble for the government of Donald Tusk."
14. Wide of Przybylski
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Wojciech Przybylski, editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight, policy journal focused on Central Europe:
"The elections in Poland and elections in Romania are equally important for NATO and Europe because of its geostrategic positioning at the eastern flank of NATO alliance. Now, we’ve secured elections in Romania with Mr. (Nicusor) Dan, who is a liberal candidate pro-EU and pro-NATO, sidelining the far-right nationalists. All eyes are on Poland, but the two elections are completely different because of their demographics, dynamics and the issues that are raised in the campaigns."
16. Various presidential palace exteriors , EU, Polish and NATO flags
STORYLINE:
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s candidate, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, and a conservative opponent backed by the national conservative Law and Justice party, Karol Nawrocki, emerged ahead of all others in a pack of 13 candidates in Sunday’s election.
They now enter into a tough two-week campaign ahead of a runoff on June 1, and they wasted no time at all, getting out very early on Monday morning to meet with voters.
Trzaskowski, who already ran and lost against outgoing President Andrzej Duda in 2020, was long considered the frontrunner this time around. He can no longer be sure.
AP video by Rafal Niedzielski
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