Polish Prime Minister Donald Tass said the Russian hackers attacked political parties’ websites in his ruling coalition two days before Sunday’s presidential election.
The frontrunners in Sunday’s election are high-ranking members of Warsaw Mayor Rafau Truzaskovsky, the Task’s Civic Platform Party.
“Two days before the election, a group of Russian hackers operating on Telegram attacked the internet site on the civic platform,” Tusk wrote on X on Friday afternoon.
Task said the websites of other officials of his governing coalition, the Left and Polish Party (PSL) have also been targeted. “Our services are intensive operation. The attacks are still ongoing,” he said.
Polish authorities were also investigating paid political ads on Facebook, investigating what Polish state research institute NASK had identified as potential election interference. Nask is the Polish acronym for the National Research and Academic Computer Network.
The Institute said it reported the incorrect information to Facebook-owned Meta and that the ads had been removed.
When the presidential candidate held a final rally on Friday, voters vote to replace conservative incumbent Andruze Duda, ending their second and final five-year term in August.
With 13 candidates, a decisive first-round victory is unlikely, and the June 1st spill is widely expected.
The polls show the possibility of a showdown between Warsaw’s free mayor, Rafau Truzaskowski, and Karol Naurocky, a conservative historian supported by the law and judicial party who ruled Poland from 2015 to 2023.
Important elections for the frontline country
Trzaskowski said Larry’s crowd Poland needs a “trustworthy” president.
“Of course, we must be safe, so we will strengthen our security, 5% of our GDP for defense. We must spend more money on security, strengthen our eastern borders and invest in the Polish defence industry.
Nawrocki, the main enemy of Trzaskowski, represents that his supporters of law and justice, the party that supports him, is heading to the right as difficult rights grows.
“I will build international relations, develop relationships with the US and make Poland a leader in the European Union in transatlantic relations,” Nowrocky told the crowd.
One of the new president’s most important tasks is to maintain strong ties with the United States, which are widely seen as essential for the survival of countries in increasingly unstable regions.
Poland’s geography has made it more important for elections. Poland, bordering Russia’s exclusion of Kaliningrad, Belarus, war-torn Ukraine, and several western allies, occupy important positions along the east side of NATO and serves as an important logistics hub for military assistance to Ukraine.
Poland is a parliamentary democracy, but the presidency cites important influences. The president serves as the commander of the military, retains veto power, shapes foreign policy, and plays a symbolic role in national discourse.
