Kwiatkowski, who is demanding a complete recount of all votes cast in the second round, said during a Monday morning interview with Polish Radio 24 that in almost all of the polling stations reviewed so far, the results had been changed to the detriment of Trzaskowski.
Voting irregularities spark calls for recount
The senator, via his account on X, pointed out that an analysis of ballots from 13 out of approximately 800 polling stations showed that Trzaskowski had been deprived of more than 2,600 votes.
The politician cited an assessment by data analysis expert Krzysztof Kontek from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), who believes that anomalies may have occurred in 1,500 polling stations, potentially resulting in an extra 300,000 to 500,000 votes being added for one of the candidates.
The candidate who may have benefited, according to Kwiatkowski, is Karol Nawrocki, who was declared the winner and is backed by the right-wing populist opposition party Law and Justice (PiS).
The president-elect has already announced plans to present his first legislative initiatives a day after taking office, with the inauguration scheduled for August 6.
50,000 election appeals filed with Supreme Court
According to information shared on social media, Poland’s Supreme Court has received an estimated 50,000 election appeals following the second round of voting.
“This number represents the equivalent of roughly two to three years' worth of total cases submitted to the Supreme Court,” the court’s administrative office stated in an official release.
Private broadcaster TVN24 reported that, based on private conversations with staff, the volume of complaints in recent days has been so high that the court ran out of folders needed to register official documents related to the case.
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Source: PR24/X/@Kwiatkowski2011/@SN_RP_