Poles vote in election that will determine whether right-wing party stays in power

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WARSAW, Poland — 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.

Many Poles feel like it is the most important election since 1989, the year that marked the end of decades of communism. The health of the nation’s democracy, its legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine, are all at stake.

Retired nurse Barbara Burs, 63, voted early in Warsaw, saying she cast her vote to change the government because she wants a better Poland for her children and grandchildren — a “just and undivided Poland.”They will choose 460 members of the lower house, or Sejm, and 100 for the Senate for four-year terms.

At one polling station, people could be seen apparently refusing to vote in the referendum, casting just two ballots into the assigned boxes. They were given three, one for the Sejm, one for the Senate and one for the referendum.

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