"Drama" by Uznański-Wiśniewski. He won't vote in the election

Polish astronaut Sławomir Uznański-Wiśniewski will not be able to vote in the presidential election due to the fact that he will be on a space mission at that time. Polish law does not supply for a solution in specified a situation.

The question of the anticipation of voting in the upcoming presidential elections by Sławomiz Uznański-Wiśniewski was sent by the president of the Polish Space Agency. As the head of the National Election Office Rafał Tkacz said at the PKW meeting, “the subject has made us laugh, although it is not comic in itself.”

Here we are actually dealing with a individual who has a problem in the light of our regulations, due to the fact that he will be on a space mission at that time. The question has come to us about how to give the floor

“Tucker said.

In the light of Polish regulations, there will be no specified possibility. As the minister said, officials “can’t aid but postpone the mission.”

Sławomi Uznański-Wiśniewski's problem was a subject of discussion during the Monday gathering of the State Election Commission. Richard Balicki noted that the American billionaire Elon Musk could help.

Instead of arguing with the Minister of abroad Affairs (Radosław Sikorski) he could make certain that the cargo ship took the package in time to return. Then the case would have been settled.

said Balicki.

It turns out, however, that would be impossible. For persons over 60 years of age, with a disability ruling, or in quarantine or isolation, may be able to vote by correspondence. Uznański-Wiśniewski does not meet any of these conditions. PKW members even joked about the anticipation of beginning a commission on a space station. However, no real solution was found.

Thousands, possibly tens of thousands of Poles will travel in airplanes and ships between 7am and 21am and will not be able to vote

“The president of PKW Sylwester Marciniak concluded.

In any countries, e.g. in the US, early voting is possible. The problem is, apart from the deficiency of specified a anticipation in the regulations, there are inactive no known candidates who will be on the ballots. As Tkacz said, the desire to vote by a Polish astronaut "is besides part of a further discussion on changes to the electoral code so that in specified situations specified a individual can offer participation".

As part of the Axis-4 mission this spring 4 astronauts – Peggy Whitson (USA), as mission commander, Shubhanshu Shukla (India), Tibor Kapu (Hungary) and Sławomir Uznański-Wiśniewski (Poland) will fly to the global Space Station (ISS).

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