Polish here, went to vote many hours ago, now stressed as hell. I am scared but will see. I honestly do not feel like sleeping, I doubt am gonna be able to fall asleep properly.
Honestly the more worrying thing is that so many people justify someone being a hooligan, a pimp, a thief, and straight up taking drugs during the presidential debate, just because "The LGBT is bad and immigrants are taking our jobs!!" (despite the fact right allowed in more immigrants than left, but go figure)
Yeah it's very worrying how so many people seem to be able to ignore any wild shit a rightwing candidate says, or does if they spout the right hateful, populist, culture war bullshit. Those two talking points are big in my country too, it's crazy how everyone buys it, when the ones spouting it are the ones really dangerous and wanting to taking advantage of the country.
Immigrants taking our jobs is so stupid, they do the shit, essential jobs citizens don't want to do. I'm from the UK and obviously that was a large part of Brexit: "they're coming over her, stealing our jobs!" but now there's a shortage of care workers, NHS staff, fruit pickers etc because immigrants weren't taking the jobs people actually wanted to do anyway
It's also about what his party used to do back in the day, when they had the power, the majority, in the Polish parliament, just a few years ago. It's PiS party, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, which translates to "Law and justice". They were famous for blunt censorship in public TV and depicting opposition as traitors, dangerous foreign agents, they were very explicit and it sounded like paranoia from them. They also used to advertise in churches through priests so that they reach their widest electorate - old people, by fear mongering them about their future to vote. And they also made the tax system even more complex, caused even higher inflation by introducing ineffective social benefits programs (I am not saying every socialist-like thing is bad, but their ideas specifically just backfired and were actually bad). They already proved to be unreliable and behaved authoritarian when they had the majority in the parliament (now they don't, but Nawrocki would be a president affiliated with them, his knowledge about politics/economy/geography is also heavily limited so he'd be listening to their advices all the time. He also speaks very basic and limited English, while the other candidate can speak Polish, English, and even French, that's also a good detail to know)
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u/Auspectress Poland Jun 01 '25
People won't sleep this night