Turning Point Ahead of Poland's Presidential Election in May: Who Will Become the Next President?

Poland's digital affairs minister on Tuesday night denounced the intensification of Russian cyberattacks against Poland a month before the presidential elections in the country bordering Russia and Ukraine, AFP reports.

Sławomir Mentzen leads a party of right-wing extremists, monarchists and euro critics. He has been an outsider in the Polish presidential campaign so far. Now he has the chance to move into the final election.

Only the Rolling Stones would have managed to capture the attention of the audience for three hours. I don't think Polish politicians have succeeded. From what I heard, people barely withstood an hour of debate. Only the toughest electorate lasted longer — says in an interview with “Wprost” Prof. Andrzej Rychard, a sociologist from the Polish Academy of Sciences, referring to the presidential debate in Końskie, conducted by TVP, TVN and Polsat j…

I will run a negative campaign. With all due respect to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, I consider it less important that he becomes president. For me, it is more important that Wałęsa does not become president - said Adam Michnik during the election campaign in 1990. We know how it ended.

According to the latest survey conducted by the Opinia24 studio on behalf of RMF FM radio, Poles expect the new president to fix the situation in Polish healthcare the most. The next most important issues, according to Poles, are the protection of the Polish border from migration, EU regulations and cooperation between the president and the government. Only in fifth place was the protection of Poland from Russia.

What is most important for Poles in the context of electing a new president of the country? The latest Opinia24 poll for RMF FM shows that we care most about improving the situation in healthcare. Closing borders to migrants and protecting Polish industry and agriculture from European Union regulations are also important to us.