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Thirdly - completing the cliché with the ugly (mixed). 🇵🇱

Imv the most important one. Poland's important & their presidency is about as powerful as you get in parliamentary systems.

So - polls were mostly right, a moderate won round 1 (idk about PO being liberal but whatever):

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgegn1

But barely. 2nd-4th all far right.

In round 2 polling a PO win is favoured (good) but it's not a given and this is alarmingly close.

Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, the presidential candidate of the Civic Coalition reacts to the exit poll for the first round of Poland's presidential election, in Sandomierz, Poland, May 18, 2025.
BBC NewsPoland election: Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw's liberal mayor,, narrowly wins Polish presidential voteRafal Trzaskowski is set to face conservative historian Karol Nawrocki in a second round run-off.