Tusk calls for boycott of presidential election

Polish former Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that he would not take part in the presidential election planned for May 10, 2020, and called for a boycott. As he explained, if all honest, decent Poles say: "this is not an election," PiS will withdraw from it.

As he said, he will not participate on 10 May "in the voting procedure prepared by Minister Jacek Sasin and PiS". He emphasized that he deliberately avoids the word "election" because "the situation prepared by the authorities has nothing to do with the election." In his opinion, the boycott should be carried out for reasons of security, unconstitutionality, and decency for those who fought for free elections.

"Unfortunately, there is no reason today for us to be able to trust 100% the rulers when they say that something is safe and something is dangerous", the former leader of the Civic Platform said.

In his opinion, the second reason for the boycott should be that the elections will not be "neither free nor equal" and the changes introduced just before the elections to the Electoral Code are unconstitutional. The former prime minister also recalled the sentence of the former foreign minister five years ago, prof. Władysław Bartoszewski, who used to say: "If you don't know how to behave, behave decently."

(PAP)