In Poland, the first round of local elections began on Sunday morning, and more than 29 million citizens entitled to vote will choose nearly two and a half thousand mayors and about 46,600 representatives at the three levels – village, district and province -. Self-governing bodies. Polling centers are open between seven in the morning and nine in the evening. After the polls close, the three major news channels will present the combined results based on polls of those who left the polls (exit poll).
On April 21, a second round will be held in areas where no mayoral candidate receives more than 50% of the votes.
The political balance of power at the national level is best reflected in the provincial General Assembly vote. According to the average of several polls conducted since the beginning of April, 30.5% of voters in this poll would vote for the list of the main opposition force, PiS, according to the blog of Marcin Ballad, a political party. A famous Polish political scientist who specializes in analyzing public opinion polls. The Civic Coalition, which leads the government coalition, has the support of 29% of voters. When forming local government coalitions, the KO will be strengthened by other government coalition groups, including the Polish Peasants' Party (PSL), which has well-established rural party structures. The government coalition parties (plus the Colombian Workers' Party, the New Left, the Third Way bloc formed by the Socialist Workers' Party and Poland 2050) have a total of 49% support.
In the previous local elections in 2018, PiS won the most votes nationally, but the broad coalition of liberal and left-wing parties controlled councils in nine out of 16 provinces and gained supremacy in most major cities. Good.
