— no of the candidates fighting in the second circular are my candidates. I think I've decided who I'm going to vote for, but it's going to be a strong vote,” says Karolina, a student who came to Koński from a close village with a friend.
They are both within tens of meters of the scene where Karol Nawrocki answers questions leading the debate. It's a small cloudy from the sky, but it's just an introduction to a cloud being hit.
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— At 1 time politicians disagreed, but talked to each other. Now they can't even afford it. That's not how it should be. Out of respect for voters, Trzaskowski should come here, says the girl.
OneParticipants in the debate in Koński
Election deja vu 5 years ago
The debate was only by name a debate due to the fact that only Karol Nawrocki took part in the event. In respective subject blocks, he answered the questions leading. Rafał Trzaskowski did not respond to the invitation of tv RepublicAt the same time, he had a gathering with voters in Kalisz. The chieftains, as we heard a fewer days ago, wondered if the KO candidate should come to the Horses, but yet outweighed the same arguments as 5 years ago. Rafał Trzaskowski did not come to Konski to debate with Andrzej Duda. The debate was organised by a government, highly politicized TVP, which was smitten on people, including LGBT people, and in their defence was the Trzaskowski. Its function is now played, among another things, by tv Republic, breaking the standards of journalism.
Trzaskowski's absence in Koński was noticed on Wednesday, but his supporters were not short on the market. First, they watched from the side of Nawrock's sympathies. These came to the marketplace with banners with the image of a PiS candidate, with Polish but besides American flags, with white and red ornaments in their hair, and any with tourist chairs. Just in case the debate continues.
At first, among the participants of the event there was a feeling of a local festival or picnic alternatively than a political rally.
OneSupporters of Karol Nawrocki brought Polish but besides American flags
“They drove them on buses”
— They drove them here on buses. They say it's consecrating, and here there are no friends of ours," said Bogdan, who, with a group of friends, watched Nawrock supporters.
- Why aren't you joining? You do not take up a place under the stage? — I ask erstwhile the marketplace is already fighting for the best position to watch the debate.
— We're going to watch the game. But I am inactive waiting for Nawrocki to quit the money due to the fact that I paid for the debate to take place here, and there will be no debate here – the irony is Jerzy.
Onesupporters of Rafał Trzaskowski brought banners to the debate
His colleague adds: “We will not vote for this Batyr. Trzaskowski is better, so global. Besides, if we hadn't counted the surrounding villages, in Koński Trzaskowski would have won.
Karol Nawrocki won the first circular of presidential elections in Koński, winning 39.96 percent votes (6,918). The second place was placed by Rafał Trzaskowski with a score of 27.38 percent (4,741). The 3rd was Sławomir Mentzen with 11.68 percent support (2 023 votes).
The election turnout in Koński was 65.78 percent.
“The horse is not a wall”
The group of voters of Trzaskowski is mocked by the fresh accidents of the PiS candidate and recalls story from the Grand Hotel that Onet revealed. But alternatively of going to the game, after a fewer moments, they're in front of the stage. They are joined by a group of women with white and red flags in their hands and the hearts of the Civic Coalition glued on blouses.
— Our candidate is gone, but we are! We want to show that the horse is not a wall. We hope that there will be more of us,” says 1 of Rafal Trzaskowski's sympathizers. He besides claims that there are buses in the parking lots that brought Nawrocki's supporters to the horse from another Świętokrzyskie towns.
OneSupporters Rafał Trzaskowski at the debate in Koński
Another KO candidate banners are rising. It automatically stimulates the crowd. First Nawrock supporters start chanting: “Poland all without Rafal”, “Together with a hammer, a red riff”, “Rafal do tests” or “You were at the ZOMO, you were at ORMO, now you are behind the Platform”.
Moments later, emotions start to buzz even more, and the crowds begin.
OneDuring the debate in Koński, there was a crowd between the audiences
Two supporters of Rafal Trzaskowski enter the crowd with a banner. It says, "I changed my mind, my voice pimp won't get it." 1 is dressed as Zorro, the another is Superman. The banner password is chanting through the bark. Supporters of Karol Nawrocki effort to draw them distant from the stage, respective people conflict for clothes, threats and insults, from both sides.
Police intervention. “These are provokers”
This fight is not over, and from the another end of the Konec marketplace there is already loud music. It disturbs the sound from the phase on which Karol Nawrocki already answers questions, and the guide like a mantra repeats that Rafał Trzaskowski is not there.
OneDebate in Koński
The sound is coming from a white van that parked at the market. First, it is surrounded by Nawrocki supporters, individual spits in the driver's window. The Republic and Jan Kanthak are besides converging. The van's surrounded by a policeman's badge. “ They are provokers, ” shouts a crowd. individual else is demanding to get the driver out of the car. Both the driver and his passenger have their faces covered – 1 bandage, the another 1 with a disposable mask. Police order the driver to leave where the halt is prohibited, but the intervention does not end there. In the close parking lot, officers identify men and evidence what they have on the box – mainly speakers.
During this time on the Konec marketplace there is another tension. This time a group of people surrounds the associate of the Witold Zembachinski Civic Coalition. The parliamentarian holds in his hand a file of cards with questions about the PiS candidate. Nawrocki supporters silence him by chanting: “the pancake, the pancake”.
“What is happening here is sad”
— We came to perceive to Charles Nawrocki. In April, too, we were in the marketplace for debate, and we liked it,” says 1 of the participants in the debate, a female horse. “It would have been more interesting if Trzaskowski had not come,” he adds.
— We haven’t decided on who to vote for on Sunday, says a young boy who is watching Nawrocki’s performance with a friend and a girl. no of them voted in the first circular either Nawrocki or Trzaskowski. “We live nearby, so we came out of curiosity to see what was going on here, but the 1 on phase is not our candidate,” they say.
OneFaithful voters Karol Nawrocki did not manage to scare off the marketplace in the horse shower
— Actually, what's going on here is sad. PiS and Platform supporters met only to challenge and push. Says Martha, who is watching the marketplace event with her daughter for respective years. “There is no 1 to vote for, 1 worse than the other. And people can turn against each another so much that the massacre, he says.
— Your candidate is lost in the first round?
— There was no 1 there who full answered me, but now I think I will vote with my eyes closed — a female smiles.
