Presidential election 2025. Electoral campaign – summary of the most important events

There are 35 days to the presidential election. This week, the campaign definitely accelerated, and it was dominated by Friday's debate in Końskie. What else happened? We sum up.

The first round of presidential elections will take place on May 18. This week National Electoral Commission completed the registration of candidatesand thus the list of pretenders to the Presidential Palace has been closed. Four candidates were refused.

13 people will fight for the office of the president: Artur Bartoszewicz (economist), Magdalena Biejat (Left candidate), Grzegorz Braun (MEP excluded from the Confederation), Szymon Hołownia (Marshal of the Sejm, third way candidate), Marek Jakubiak (Free Republican MP), Sławomir Mentzen (Candidate of the Confederation), Karol Nawrocki (President Candidate) IPN, PiS candidate), Joanna Senyszyn (former MP SLDeconomist), Rafał Trzaskowski (President of Warsaw and KO candidate), Marek Woch (candidate of non -party local government officials), Adrian Zandberg (MP, party candidate Together) and Maciej Maciak (leader of the Welfare and Peace Movement).

Debate in Końskie

The event dominated by the passing campaign week turned out to be Friday debate in Końskie. Actually, until the start, it was not certain who would take part in it. Initially, only two candidates were to take a rhetorical clash: Rafał Trzaskowski (Civic Coalition) and Karol Nawrocki (Law and Justice), but eventually eight of 13 registered candidates took part: Rafał Trzaskowski, Karol Nawrocki, Szymon Hołownia, Magdalena Biejat, Krzysztof Stanowski, Joanna Senyszyn, Marek Jakubiak and Maciej Maciak.

The debate was divided into three thematic blocks: security, foreign policy and economy. Each of them also had the mutual questions of the candidates. Finally, each participant had a two -minute free statement.

Political podcast. Arleta Zalewska and Konrad Piasecki about the debate

Lies and manipulations of candidates

During the campaign, candidates pass the truth or manipulate reality more than once. The editors are verifying this content Concrete24which this week also traced the course of the debate in Końskie. The analysis of the statements of the candidates revealed false or containing the manipulations of the thesis.

Absent on the debate

They did not participate in the debate among others Sławomir Mentzen (Confederation) and Adrian Zandberg (together). Politicians explained why they didn't decide to do so.

Mentzen explained himself with a meeting with voters in Ustrzyki Dolne, Lesko, Brzozów and Krosno. “I will not cancel them and disappoint people waiting for me there to go to Końskie and try to enter the debate, which I am not invited to. I will not take part in this circus” – wrote the confederation candidate.

– I think that we all look at this clam with disgust today, which has been playing in the last hours. I run for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland, not the office of the clown in the circus – said Zandberg.

Hołownia wins with Mentzen

In the past week The court resolved the case of the claimthat Sejm Marshal Szymon Hołownia submitted in an election procedure against the confederation candidate for president Sławomir Mentzen.

The confederation candidate on April 2, apart from the order of the parliamentary rostrum, accused Szymon Hołownia that he “invited illegal immigrants from the border with Belarus to the Sejm.” “He made” Sweet Fota “with them and threw it into the internet,” he said about the Speaker of the Sejm.

The court ruled that Mentzen “disseminated false information” and ordered him to post a correction, which was ultimately published on the social media of the confederation candidate.

Incident at the Trzaskowski rally

Rafał Trzaskowski performed on Saturday at a rally in Bolesławiec. As the prime minister later informed Donald Tuskduring the meeting with the residents, “attempts to attack gas on Rafał Trzaskowski by an aggressive man” took place.

The TVN24 camera has registered how the participants of the rally pull a man from the crowd of gathered. Soon after, the police approached them, and the man was led out by officers from the square, where the meeting took place.

Election poll

Electoral polls indicate the current preferences of voters and the chances of winning candidates. What results from latest study of the opinion studio24 For “Facts” TVN and TVN24?

The most respondents in the first round would vote for the candidate of the Civic Coalition Rafał Trzaskowski. The President of Warsaw could count on 33 percent support. PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki came second, who can count on 22 percent support. The podium is completed by the confederation candidate Sławomir Mentzen with a score of 15 percent.

The next places were Sejm Marshal Szymon Hołownia and the party's candidate Adrian Zandberg. 5 percent of respondents would vote for both politicians. MEP Grzegorz Braun, with a result of 4 percent, would take the next position, and the left candidate Magdalena Biejat could count on 2 percent support. 14 percent of respondents gave a different answer.

If Trzaskowski and Nawrocki were in the second round of elections, then the President of Warsaw could count on more votes – 44 percent. 38 percent would vote for his competitor. 18 percent of the respondents indicated the answer: “I don't know/hard to say.”