2023-10-13 16:19:39
On Adam Hsakou
Published 1 minute ago, Updated 1 minute ago
A young Polish girl holding her country’s flag (illustrative photo). SOPA Images/Volha Shukaila / SOPA Images/Sip
Today, 80% of young voters say they are frustrated by the Polish political situation
Correspondent in Poland
On the terrace of an unpretentious café in Warsaw, Rafal, 25, sips a hot drink. Despite the political excitement linked to the approaching legislative elections, the young sports presenter appears disillusioned. I’m not sure I’ll vote on Sunday. Whether it is Kaczynski or Tusk, they promise a lot, but when it comes to practice I am not convinced,” he confides, before admitting, somewhat embarrassed, to having participated neither in the last legislative elections of 2019 nor in the presidential elections of 2020.
Today, like Rafal, 80% of young voters say they are frustrated by the Polish political situation. The latter have been immersed in the growing conflict between national conservatives and centrists, personified for eighteen long years by veterans Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Donald Tusk. “The level of public debate is extremely poor. On TV sets, politicians cut each other off, demonize the adversary, without ever…
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