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Politico (23 August 2024)

The campaign to choose Poland’s next president is heating up, even though the election isn’t slated until next May.

On paper the office isn’t that powerful. The president does, however, have the ability to block a lot of what the government wants to do. And incumbent President Andrzej Duda has been doing just that to the eight-month-old administration of Prime Minister Donald Tusk — preventing it from carrying out much of its electoral program and even refusing to sign off on government candidates for ambassadors.

With Duda ending his second five-year term, making him ineligible to run again, the election has become a must-win race.

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