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over the European Union, national security and social values. At the same time, both candidates take a similarly hardline approach to immigration, and have used anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, building on growing resentment among Poles who see themselves as competing for strained social services with 1.55 million Ukrainian migrants and war refugees.While Trzaskowski has proposed that only working Ukrainians should have access to the country’s child benefit, Nawrocki has gone further, saying he would also be against Ukraine joining NATO or even the EU.

‘Every vote is needed’Speaking at his “Patriots’ March”, which gathered about 140,000 supporters last weekend, Trzaskowski took aim at his opponent while calling for unity.“It’s high time for honesty to win. It’s high time for integrity to win. It’s high time for justice to win. It’s high time for truth to win. That’s what these elections are about,” he declared to a cheering crowd.

“Full determination is needed. Every vote is needed. So that the future wins. So that all of Poland wins.”Trzaskowski has served as Warsaw’s mayor since 2018. His comments about “honesty” are seen as a reference to a recent news story about Nawrocki’s alleged purchase of a flat in Gdansk belonging to an elderly man in exchange for a promise to provide him with care. According to the man’s family, the promise was not fulfilled, and he was placed in a state nursing home.

In response, Nawrocki has said he will donate the flat to charity and pointed out that under Trzaskowski’s mayorship, families had been evicted from state accommodation in Warsaw.

Trzaskowski is viewed as a more liberal candidate than his opponent and has, unlike Nawrocki, supported calls for LGBTQ rights, as well as the liberalisation of the country’sThe Herero tribe revolted against German colonisers in January 1904, with the smaller Nama tribe joining the next year.

The crackdown by German troops sent tens of thousands of people fleeing towards neighbouring Botswana.Then, in October 1904, German General Lothar von Trotha, under the command of German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II, signed a notorious “extermination order” against the Herero.

“Within the German boundaries, every Herero, with or without a gun, with or without livestock, will be shot dead,” the order said.Between 1904 and 1908, at least 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people were killed, many at German-run concentration camps, although some estimates put the death toll higher.