Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump cast shadow over Polish election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Security drives the election," Trzaskowski, candidate of the Civic Platform party led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, said in an interview, arguing that voters wanted their next president to keep Poland on "solid ground" and at the heart of EU policymaking following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
47% : If elected, he added, "I'm going to collaborate with the government, but I'm going to really scrutinise legislation that they send my way -- and if I don't like something, I'm going to veto it." Trzaskowski, 53, is making a second attempt to become president after narrowly losing to Duda in 2020.
45% : Rafał Trzaskowski, the pro-EU frontrunner for Poland's presidential election, is counting on voters' long-standing fear of Russia to boost his campaign against nationalist rivals who are struggling to reconcile their support for Donald Trump with the US president's pro-Moscow leanings.
33% : " Nawrocki and Mentzen complain that they are not campaigning on a level playing field because the election commission cut public funding to their parties over alleged irregularities in past election spending.
25% : At the same time, Trump's claims that Ukraine rather than Russia was responsible for the war have become an issue for Polish opposition politicians who gave Trump a standing ovation in their parliament when he won the US elections last November.

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