Poland's main party leaders made their final appeals to voters on Friday as the country gears up for Sunday's hotly-contested parliamentary election.
The main party leaders facing off in Poland’s upcoming parliamentary election called on voters to give their respective parties winning support as they held final campaign rallies Friday. Opinion polls suggested a close race. The election Sunday will decide whether the ruling conservative, Euro-skeptic Law and Justice party will win a third straight term or whether the liberal, pro-European Civic Coalition and its partners will take power.
We are the only political formation that guarantees that your voices will be heard,' Kaczynski told the crowd. He used the usual party slogans in his speech to draw chants of 'YES' for his party's policies and 'NO' for the opposition. At the end he told voters that 'Poland's prosperity and good opportunities for all ... depend on you, on Poland's citizens,' while every vote for the opposition is wrong.
Other parties were also closing their campaigns with events across the country. Saturday at midnight electoral silence begins, meaning no campaigning and no publishing of opinion polls are allowed, in order to give the voters time to weigh their decision before polling stations open Sunday. Polls suggest Law and Justice will win the most votes but will lose its current narrow parliament majority and with it the possibility to rule singlehandedly.
With some 8% of eligible voters still undecided, statements from the leaders at the rallies on Friday could decide the nation’s immediate future.
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