– Dearly beloved, we are going to win," said Rafał Trzaskowski on Sunday evening, adding that he had already said 8 months ago that he would be very close and very close.
Trzaskowski's speech after the election results. "Dear friends, we're going for victory!"
– I'm so glad I won the first round, but we have quite a few work ahead of us. There is simply a request for determination, your voices, convincing everyone," said Trzaskowski.
– I would like to thank you all who voted for me," he said.
He besides gave thanks to Magdalena Biejat, Simon Holownia, Adrian Zandberg and Prof. Joanna Senyszyn.
The KO candidate besides recalled Sandomierz's defence against the flood wave. “Then we were all together and worked day and night to save the city,” he said.
We gotta finish the shift. We gotta velocity up. We request to settle the Law and Justice – it went down later in the speech.
– It is besides very crucial to guarantee that Poland is in the EU, NATO. So we can have the best relation with the United States. To make it a partnership. For money to flow from the European Union, he pointed out.
Trzaskowski besides declared that he would fight for liberalisation of abortion law and the separation of the state from the Church. “People and citizens are most crucial to us,” he said.
Strong words were besides spoken at Nawrocki. – My main opponent Karol Nawrocki is an utmost politician. This isn't Andrew Duda. It is an utmost and conflict policy – the candidate KO observed.
Trzaskowski believes that "we request the president of all Poles and Poles who will lead to us all winning".
Results I circular presidential election by exit poll:
Rafał Trzaskowski – 30.8%.
Karol Nawrocki – 29.1%.
Sławomir Mentzen – 15.4%.
Grzegorz Braun – 6.2 percent.
Adrian Zandberg – 5.2 percent.
Simon Holownia – 4.8 percent.
Magdalena Biejat – 4.1 percent.
Krzysztof Stanowski – 1.3%.
Joanna Senyszyn – 1.3%.
Marek Jakubiak – 0.8%.
Artur Bartoszewicz – 0.5%.
Maciej Maciak – 0.4%.
Marek Woch – 0.1 percent.
The 2nd election circular will take place on 1 June
On May 18, the first circular of the presidential election was held. Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate of the Civic Coalition, obtained the most votes, but did not exceed the 50% support limit, which means that he did not win adequate votes to win already in the first round.
For this reason, according to regulations, the second circular of elections was scheduled for 1 June. It is then that voters will decide again who will service as president of Poland for the next years. The word of office of the president of Poland lasts 5 years.