Many people in the country feel it is the most important election since 1989, the year that marked the end of decades of communism.
Poland was holding a high-stakes election on Sunday that has energised many voters, with the ruling conservative nationalist party pitted against opposition groups that accuse it of eroding the foundations of the democratic system.
Many Poles feel it is the most important election since 1989 when a new democracy was born after decades of communism. The health of the nation’s constitutional order, its legal stance on LGBT+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine are all at stake.
Tomasz Druzynski, an information technology specialist, voted in Warsaw saying he believed change was possible. The EU, whose funding has driven much of the economic transformation, is also withholding billions of euros in funding to Poland over what it views as democratic erosion.
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