“The PKW has no sitting scheduled for 5 p.m. today,” Marcin Chmielnicki, spokesman for the National Electoral Office, told reporters. “Only the PKW chair can call a meeting.”
At the weekend, PKW commissioner Ryszard Kalisz had posted on X that the body would meet on Monday to review “erroneous figures” in precinct protocols. The reversal added confusion to a dispute over arithmetic mistakes reported in more than a dozen voting stations.
Duda, defense minister step in
President Andrzej Duda weighed in on X, claiming “post-communists together with liberal-left forces want to rig the already decided election” and urging voters to “defend what is left of democracy.” Duda did not offer evidence.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz urged calm, saying any doubts about last week’s presidential vote tabulation must be checked “scrupulously” but that talk of wholesale fraud is unfounded.
“If citizens report irregularities in polling stations, state institutions must clarify them meticulously,” he wrote on X. “Poles need a guarantee that every ballot is valid and correctly counted – but claims the election was rigged are unjustified, and no responsible person is making them. Starting a political war over this weakens Poland.”
Media outlets have highlighted cases in Kraków and Mińsk Mazowiecki where officials inadvertently swapped vote totals for conservative winner Karol Nawrocki and centrist challenger Rafał Trzaskowski. Local commissions said they had asked for corrections.
Preliminary nationwide results put Nawrocki on 10,606,877 votes, defeating Trzaskowski by 369,591. Opposition politicians say the known errors appear too small to change the outcome but want a full audit.
Under Polish law, the Supreme Court must certify the election after receiving a PKW report and considering any legal protests.
Nawrocki is due to be sworn in on August 6.
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Source: IAR