#polish elections

[definitelynotdamiano]

Jesus fucking christ, according to the exit poll the turnout in the Polish elections was over 70%. More than in fucking 1989. I'm so, so proud

Edit to add the official info:

The turnout in the elections was 74.38%, and it has never been this high.

In 1989, in the first free elections after communism fell, it was 62.7%.

You can tell how tired and fed up we are.

And in the joke of a referendum with disgusting and dehumanizing questions, that was on the same day and you received the card together with the elections card, so you had to refuse it in front of other people in the line, the turnout was only 40.91%. For the results to be considered valid, the turnout has to be over 50%.

I don't say this often, but I have to say it again now: I am so proud of us. People were standing in lines for 6 hours. The voting and the election silence ended at 9 pm, but if you got in the line before that, you were able to vote. The last people voted around 3am the next day.

#poland #polska #wybory #polish elections

[whoistrash]

God. Voter turnout in Poland is around 73 percent. Seventy fucking three. It's the highest result in history. I'm so damn proud. The exit poll results are not perfect (nor final), of course they're not, but we're not losing. Not like four years ago. Not by so many mandates. We have the majority. Even if we lose, we win.

I'm so glad I voted. I'm so sick of living in the country that I love dearly, but can't stand the authorities of. I'm so sick of the rightists that ruin my beautiful nation. I just want peace. Now, we're waiting.

#polish elections #poland #wybory #polska

[nat-es]

Głosujmy! 🗳️ W przyszłą niedzielę, 15 października 2023 r., odbędą się wybory parlamentarne. Głosować można w godzinach od 7:00-21:00. Przed zagłosowaniem warto sprawdzić swój okręg wyborczy. Dla osób niezdecydowanych pomocny może być również test na stronie: latarnikwyborczy.pl

Pamiętajcie, że każdy głos jest ważny.

P.S. Jedną z inspiracji do stworzenia ilustracji była książka "Posełki. Osiem pierwszych kobiet" autorstwa Olgi Wiechnik, którą serdecznie polecam.

ENG: VOTE! 🗳️ Illustrations dedicated to parliamentary elections in Poland, which will be held on 15 October. Inspired by the book about the first "Posełki. Osiem pierwszych kobiet" by Olgi Wiechnik. This book ishows a story of the eight first polish female members of parliament.

#vote #polish #wybory #idę na wybbory #wybory 2023 #polish elections

[whoooooisthis]

Today's the day when I can celebrate with my friends, my family, my teachers.

This is not an utopia, but this change is for the better anyways. PiS WAS NEVER AN OPTION

#polish elections #senate elections #congress elections #pis #slavic #poland #polish #polska

[thepolishcowboy]

Udało się kurwaaaaaa

a Konfiturka prawie wypadła z koszyka xD

#poland #polish politics #polish elections

[sztansescheadache]

WYGRALIŚMY KURWA WE FUCKING WON PIS I KONFA DOSTAŁY PO MORDZIE I TAK TRZYMAĆ

#polish elections #poland #KURWA JAKI KAMIEŃ Z SERCA #to niby tylko exit poll ale still #zobaczmy jak będzie jutro i z referndum #może jeszcze jest jakaś nadzieja dla twgo kraju

[andordean]

The highest turnover in the recent history of Polish elections (estimates say 71%?!). Which is great. Great turnover abroad, too.

Only the ruling party made one small change, and the voting committees abroad have twenty four hours to count all the votes, or else those votes are deemed invalid.

So. Yay turnover. Hopefully you lawbreaking pieces of shit with no regard for democracy rot in hell of your own doing.

Now. If opposition fucks up this chance to rebuild the country, we don't deserve democracy.

[council-of-beetroot]

Guys 72.9% of eligible voters voted! 🇵🇱 I'm honestly proud right now.

This might finally be some good news with the exit polls as well!

#im so happy #polska #polska tag #polish elections

[noname30]

So, I voted.

Now all I can do is wait. Not even hope, hope failed me last time. Just wait.

#poland #elections #election day #polish elections

[definitelynotdamiano]

the election silence and the possibility to join the waiting line to vote ended at 9 pm, 4.5h ago. it's 1:30 am and there are people still waiting for their turn

I'm still amazed by the turnout and the determination to wait even 6 hours in the lines

#poland #polska #wybory #polish elections

[thearcaneuniversity]

what a beautiful sunny day!

I’m kinda bummed that I have to sit here all day when it’s so nice outside, but at the same time I’m glad to earn some extra money… internships do not pay well.

#elections #poland #polish elections

[mariaapoleika]

Grafika Profrekwencyjna

#wybory #mariaapoleika #polishillustration #apoleika #maria apoleika #illustration #poland #wybory 2023 #polish elections #polish politics #polska #frekwencja

[hungrigbuffel]

Exit poll coming soon while me and my friends are sitting together and waiting for it like it was the first star on Christmas Eve... ⭐

#personal #Polish elections

[worldofwardcraft]

They're so hard to get rid of.

October 23, 2023

There are some life lessons that are always important to remember. One is if you leave food on the floor, cockroaches can infest your kitchen. But another is if you don't vote in elections, fascists can infest your government. And, once established, both kinds of destructive pests can be tough to eradicate.

The Poles are certainly trying. For eight years, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) Party has ruled their nation. During which PiS steadily pushed Poland towards authoritarianism. But last week's parliamentary election, which saw the highest voter participation in over a hundred years (nearly 74%), turned PiS out of power in a bid to return the country to the liberal democracy it used to be.

But can Poland's new government reform a system where public broadcasting, the constitutional court, the judiciary in general, the central bank, the national prosecutor’s office and other state agencies have been packed with PiS loyalists? Says Wojciech Przybylski, head of Warsaw's Res Publica Foundation, “This is the really important question: How to unwind an illiberal democracy?”

It's also a problem here at home. In only four short years as president, Donald Trump managed to stuff the federal government full of MAGAfied, fascism-friendly appointees. And many are proving difficult to dislodge.

Charles Rettig, Trump’s head of the Internal Revenue Service, used tax audits to terrorize low-income earners, while shielding his corporate allies from paying their fair share. President Biden couldn't dump him until his term expired in November 2022.

Then there's Joseph Cuffari, who's still inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. A report by the Democrats on the House Subcommittee on National Security charged Cuffari with:

a failure to report rampant sexual misconduct and harassment at DHS, and a failure to investigate and disclose to Congress missing Secret Service text messages from the January 6th insurrection.

Also, FBI Director Chris Wray, who engaged in hyper-surveilling Black Lives Matter, but ignored the mountain of evidence warning of a far-right attack on the Capitol in 2021.

And Louis DeJoy, head the US Postal Service, who's been actively sabotaging the agency's functionality. By law Biden can't remove him, and the USPS Board of Governors (for some reason) won't.

Add in the 234 radical-right federal judges (including three Supreme Court justices) with lifetime appointments Trump foisted on our legal system. Plus, the hundreds of extremist MAGAs more or less permanently entrenched in Congress. And we're sadly learning the hard lesson that once fascist vermin infiltrate government, there's practically no getting them out.

#fascisim #right wing extremism #trump appointees #polish elections

[gamer2002]

Big frequency during elections. My sisters' fiancé says he is going to wait an hour in line.

Can't tell today about my vote.

#elections #polish elections