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Written by Filip Bialy The Polish election silence on Saturday was disturbed by a man who climbed on the top of the Smolensk plane crash monument - which has a form of a staircase leading to the sky - in Warsaw, claiming he has a bomb in his backpack. The police...

Written by Filip Bialy The Civic Coalition’s Million Hearts March has dominated the headlines, with the Law and Justice party convention struggling to get half the attention. Donald Tusk is attempting to unify the opposition forces, hoping that eventually the...

Written by Filip Bialy The seventh week of the election campaign in Poland (20-26 September 2023) Law and Justice is endeavouring to combat the visa scandal by increasing nationalist rhetoric and attacking the acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, while also...

Written by Filip Bialy The visa scandal dominated the sixth week of the election campaign in Poland. As much as 250 thousand Polish worker visas were reportedly awarded to immigrants from Asian and African countries as a result of an illegal scheme, orchestrated by...

Written by Filip Bialy Parties registered their candidates and held their conventions as Law and Justice remains the polls leader. Civic Coalition fights back by presenting 100 promises for the first 100 days in government and Jarosław Kaczyński goes viral with a...

The fourth week of the campaign was dominated by Law and Justice’s reshuffle of candidate lists and mildly controversial speeches by the opposition leaders at Campus Poland. In election polls, the governing party maintains a clear lead but lacks a majority to govern...

Written by Filip Bialy Several surprises on the parties’ lists and the first ever use of generative AI in political advertising in Poland during the third week of election campaign. Political leaders, all of them on the move, clash over unemployment rates,...

Written by Filip Bialy The second week of the campaign was going to belong to the Civic Coalition. And it did, but not necessarily in the way it was intended by Donald Tusk who surprisingly announced that Agrounia’s Maciej Kołodziejczak will run from the Coalition’s...

Written by Filip BialyThe first week of the parliamentary campaign in Poland was dominated by the governing Law and Justice. President Andrzej Duda, an ex-member of the party and, most of the time, a reliable ally, announced – through his social media channels – the...