Deputy PM: these will be 'most important elections' since 1989
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
05.10.2015 08:09
The upcoming elections in Poland on 25 October will be the most important since those of 1989, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said.
Photo: PAP/Rafał GuzPhoto: PAP/Rafał Guz
Siemoniak said that the forthcoming parliamentary elections will show the “path which Poland will take”.
“Over the next three weeks, we need to roll up our sleeves to convince as many Poles to vote for the [governing liberal Civic Platform, PO, party], because there a lot is at stake in these elections,” he said.
The politician, part of PO, went on to say that these elections are second in importance only to those of 1989, when Poles went out to vote in the first free elections since WWII, and marked the beginning of the end of communist rule in Poland.
The conservative Law and Justice (PiS) is ahead of PO in recent opinion polls and could win the general election outright on 25 October. The party has been in opposition for eight years. (rg/rk)