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The Polish lower house of parliament, the Sejm, approved on Thursday government-sponsored legislation that would allow the country’s presidential election to go ahead by postal ballot, according to voting records. Poland’s lower house of parliament gave the green light on Thursday for a presidential election to be held by postal vote following a dispute over...

Poland’s opposition-controlled upper house, the Senate, rejected a legislation put forward by the ruling party, that would allow presidential election to be carried out by postal voting on Sunday, May 10. The bill will now return to the lower house, the Sejm, which is likely to vote on it very soon. The Polish Senate on...

May 2, although it is not a public holiday, is also a day during which we celebrate a few worth of holidays. Polish Flag Day is celebrated between national holidays: May 1 (called Labor Day) and May 3 (National Holiday of May 3). It was established by the Act of February 20, 2004. The choice...

On May 1, 2004, under the Accession Treaty, signed a year earlier in Athens, Poland joined the European Union. 16 years ago, the borders of the EU changed significantly – together with us, full members of the Union, there were nine countries: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary. It...

„Basic human decency” should stop Poles from voting in a presidential election scheduled for May 10, Donald Tusk, the leader of the centre-right European People’s Party and former Polish prime minister, said on Tuesday (April 28). In a video posted on Twitter, Tusk said he thought PiS could be persuaded to work on an alternative...

Prime Minister Morawiecki decided to earmark funds from the budget in fight to contain tragic fires that have already consumed about 6,000 hectares of Poland’s largest natural treasure, the Biebrza National Park. Environmentalists say that the fire reflects ongoing climate change and urge the government to change its water management policies to fight the drought....

Former Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin and his Agreement party – a junior partner in the ruling coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS) – on Monday began talks with opposition Civic Platform (PO) party aimed at delaying the presidential election scheduled for May 10. PiS wants to carry out the election as planned, but...

Poland’s lower house is ready to debate the proposals on abortion and sexual education that were submitted during the last term and must be discussed by May. The former bill is aimed to tighten already very strict abortion rules, seriously affecting rights and safety of women in the country. The latter, on the other hand,...

Poland’s lower house on Monday passed a legislation green-lighting postal voting in May 10 presidential election. Earlier on that that the chamber rejected the first draft submitted by the ruling Law and Justice party, which the critics accuse of risking public health only to make sure their candidate, incumbent Andrzej Duda, gets re-elected. In the...

The Speaker of the Senate Tomasz Grodzki announced on Monday (March 30) he would submit a variety of amendments to the so-called anti-crisis shield. „We want to replace an imperfect, punctured shield with a better one, a true and solid dam that would prevent the spillage of the pandemic” – he explained. Michał Dworczyk, a...