Government expected to face close race with opposition led by the former prime minister and European Council president
I ran into Igor Tuleya, a judge who has been strongly critical of PiS judicial policies, outside a Warsaw polling station this morning and asked him for his thoughts on the vote. Tuleya, who was suspended from work for more than two years and has led a campaign against PiS’s attack on the judiciary, said he thought the elections were as important as the vote in 1989 which marked the beginning of the end of the communist era in the country.
“I am sure that if this government stays in power they will continue their path and the rule of law will be destroyed in Poland,” he said. Tuleya also said he was worried about potential attempts to discredit the results or interfere in the process in the event of a PiS defeat. Electoral results are ratified by the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs, created by the PiS government.