The influential German diary clearly about elections in Poland. It predicts a amazing outcome

The ultimate Court can decide presidential elections in Poland – writes "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"

"Polish politics are playing for everything," writes the German regular "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) on Friday (30.05.2025) about the second circular of presidential elections in Poland. paper correspondent Stefan Locke notes that both candidates, Rafał Trzaskowski of KO and supported by PiS Karol Nawrocki, “represent completely different directions of improvement of the country”. The polls give them an equal chance, with about six percent of the voters not yet deciding who they would vote for. Therefore, "both camps are trying with large commitment to mobilise their supporters, and in peculiar the electorates of eleven candidates who have fallen out after the first round".

“But if the difference is truly tiny in the end, it can lead to long-term legal disputes with serious consequences for Polish politics,” Locke writes. He explains that the ultimate Court in Warsaw will decide on the legality of elections, including the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs.

"However, like the 'Chamber of Professional Responsibility', in short, the Disciplinary Chamber, was created under the regulation of the Law and in the opinion of Polish lawyers, as well as the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Commission, is not legally cast," adds the German journalist. He points out: if these chambers consider the result of the election invalid, the president cannot be sworn in.

Concerns about the independency of the court

“FAZ” quotes Paweł Kuglarz, lawyer and manager of the Chair of European Law of the Jagiellonian University, who points out that very serious irregularities would should be demonstrated in order to cancel elections.

"Before the first circular of the PiS environment voting, they had criticised supposedly unfair access by their candidate to tv debates and illegal backing of the Trzask run without presenting any evidence. PiS itself has previously cancelled millions of state grants due to illegal backing of the electoral run in 2023", reports “FAZ”. It recalls that coalition politicians under Donald Tusk have publically questioned the independency of the SN Chamber many times, although the case before the European Court of Justice has not yet been settled.

"However, the stake in these elections for both parties is almost everything: if Nawrocki wins, Prime Minister Donald Tusk will not be able to implement his improvement programme, which primarily includes the restoration of the regulation of law and the promise to punish PiS politicians guilty of embezzlement and corruption, for example due to the fact that the president would block it with his veto. If Trzaskowski wins, many PiS politicians will gotta face penalties, but above all, the party's chances of returning to the government after the parliamentary elections in 2 years will drop drastically," writes Stefan Locke.

Risk of destabilising the country

According to the “FAZ” quoted by Tomasz Pietryga from the paper “Rzeczpospolita” there is simply a hazard that the loser in the election will effort to instrumentalize the court or question the independency of the ultimate Court, especially if the triumph is determined by a tiny number of votes. However, Pietryga considers that so far there is no evidence that the SN Chamber, which determines the legality of the elections, is dependent or favours 1 party.

"The president has a powerful position in Poland, for example as the commander-in-chief of the army and with the right to veto the laws passed by Parliament," the interviewer “FAZ” points out. "Any obstacle to this office could destabilize the country. This can't happen," he warns.

Anna Widzyk