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In Warsaw, there were marches of candidates who will face each other in the second round of presidential elections. On TVN24, the course of both events was commented by dr hab. Dorota Piontek, political science at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and dr hab. Małgorzata Myśliwiec from the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Dorota Piontek, a political scale from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, said that both marches had a similar goal, “that is, in the case of both (sides – ed.), It was really about showing being together.”

However, she pointed to the differences between events. – support march Rafał Trzaskowskithis is an optimist march, a march of people who, in an individual dimension, want to feel that they have done something, that they can do something. This is an inclusive march. A march in which politicians are essentially one of the elements of this crowd, this community, this group – she talked about the great march of patriots.

However, the march for Poland Karol NawrockiAccording to political science, he was mainly a party event. – In the case of Karol Nawrocki, we were dealing with an event primarily, in my opinion, party. That is, this event was no different from a speech that could be read somewhere at some party congress – she assessed.

Contemporary Trzaskowski, Patriotic and Historical Nawrocki

Małgorzata Myśliwiec also noticed differences in the speeches of both candidates. – The speech of Rafał Trzaskowski is a contemporary speech, it is a speech referring to Poland's successes after 1989, to the long path we took – she said.

Trzaskowski's speech opposed Nawrocki's speech. “Unlike Karol Nawrocki, who rather presented a speech here, I would say, patriotic and historical,” she said.

– I have the impression that the Law and Justice camp is still mentally either in this period after the Second World War, or even tries to make up for the nineteenth century, when Poland was not present in the international arena – added Małgorzata Myśliwiec.

“Cherry on the cake” of the campaign

A political scale from the University of Warsaw, Dr. Anna Materska-Sosnowska, estimated that Sunday marches were the “icing on the cake” of the campaign. “This is such a actual short circuit of opponents, this is the real campaign,” she said.

She pointed out that the symbolic gesture was the presence of Trzaskowski on the march and supporting him by Nicosur Dan, president-elect Romania. In the second round of elections he defeated George Simon, who had previously supported Karol Nawrocki.

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