The vicious 20-year feud at the centre of Poland's election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : (In the Polish republic, the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.)
57% : Each believes the other poses an existential threat to Poland, a nation of 38mn, adding to the sense that this election will be the most important for the EU this year.
56% : But it is Tusk's affiliation with the EU that poses the largest challenge to his electability on Sunday.
55% : It also led the EU in supplying weapons to Ukraine, while urging Germany and others to follow the Polish example.
51% : On the campaign trail, Tusk has alternated between defiance and caution when asked about the EU, at times downplaying an experience that is unique for a politician from central and eastern Europe but has nourished PiS's portrayal of Tusk as a stooge.
48% : Given that Polish society overall remains pro-EU, "no one in PiS will openly say that they want Poland to leave the EU", Tusk argued in a speech this year.
48% : "PiS offers an alternative reading of Tusk's EU interests, alleging that Germany brought Tusk to Brussels a decade ago in order to ensure that the EU turned a blind eye to Berlin's co-operation with Moscow in building the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
47% : PiS avoided putting EU membership on its referendum.
46% : But Warsaw's relationship with Kyiv has recently soured amid a dispute over grain exports from Ukraine that has also raised concerns about Poland's longer-term commitment to help Ukraine join the EU.
44% : Alongside their party choice, voters will also be asked four referendum questions: about fighting illegal migration, tightening border security, keeping the retirement age and not selling state assets to foreigners.
43% : "PiS started by excluding Poland from the EU by not respecting its basic laws, they then excluded us on a financial level by making sure we would not receive our EU funding, so they're now one step away from excluding Poland on every level," says opposition legislator Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz.
41% : Many opposition politicians claim that PiS's judicial fight with Brussels is only the prelude to a post-election plan to leave the EU.
39% : Warsaw has recently opposed other important pieces of EU legislation, like the green deal to fight climate change and a migration solidarity pact.
39% : "We don't need an EU referendum now that the EU is on the way to collapse because of the green deal and the antisocial politics of [European Commission president]

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