Voting has begun in a high-stakes election in Poland that will chart the way forward for the European Union member on NATO's eastern flank.
A man prepares to cast his ballot during parliamentary elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. on Sunday that has energized many voters, with the ruling conservative nationalist party pitted against opposition groups that accuse it of eroding the foundations of the democratic system.
Polling in recent days suggested that opposition parties have a chance to deprive the governing populists of an unprecedented third term in a row. “I believe in it and I think this is the first chance in eight years to change something. And I hope this change will come,” Druzynski said.Jan Molak, an 80-year-old supporter of the ruling party, credited it with creating a more just economic system and the development boom of recent years.
Retired nurse Barbara Burs, 63, voted early in Warsaw, saying she cast her vote to change the government because she wants a better country for her children and grandchildren — a “just and undivided Poland.” At one polling station on the southern edge of Warsaw, people could be seen apparently declining to vote in the referendum, casting just two ballots into the assigned boxes. Voters were offered three ballots, one for the Sejm, one for the Senate and one for the referendum.Over 400 voting stations will operate abroad. In a sign of the huge emotions being generated by the vote, more than 600,000 Poles registered to vote abroad.
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