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15 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]
And here's the news from the Polish community in Ireland.
Long queues have been forming since early this morning at 11 polling stations around Ireland. Thousands are queuing outside the Polish Embassy in Dublin. Voter registrations have increased by 10,000 since last year. However considering that there are about 120,000 Polish nationals living in Ireland, it's very disappointing that despite the increase only about 25,000 are registered to vote. But gradually I think Polish people are beginning to become less apathetic about the voting process and beginning to realize that your vote can actually make a difference.
Polish voters explained why they had turned out in such large numbers to vote.
"because we can lose access to be part of, the possibility to be part of the European Union, if the current government would be still in power."
"We're just trying to help all the people who are in Poland and my family and friends to change what their situation and what the political situation is in Poland right now, because its pretty bad and I think we're all here to change it."
"That referendum is a joke, I think is the best way to describe it, so I'm not planning to participate in that."
"Its a very decisive election so I think people turned out. I didn't bother in previous years but this year it just feels like it will make more of a difference."
rte.ie/news/world/2023/1015/1411018-polish-dublin/
And here's the news from the Polish community in Ireland.
Long queues have been forming since early this morning at 11 polling stations around Ireland. Thousands are queuing outside the Polish Embassy in Dublin. Voter registrations have increased by 10,000 since last year. However considering that there are about 120,000 Polish nationals living in Ireland, it's very disappointing that despite the increase only about 25,000 are registered to vote. But gradually I think Polish people are beginning to become less apathetic about the voting process and beginning to realize that your vote can actually make a difference.
Polish voters explained why they had turned out in such large numbers to vote.
"because we can lose access to be part of, the possibility to be part of the European Union, if the current government would be still in power."
"We're just trying to help all the people who are in Poland and my family and friends to change what their situation and what the political situation is in Poland right now, because its pretty bad and I think we're all here to change it."
"That referendum is a joke, I think is the best way to describe it, so I'm not planning to participate in that."
"Its a very decisive election so I think people turned out. I didn't bother in previous years but this year it just feels like it will make more of a difference."
rte.ie/news/world/2023/1015/1411018-polish-dublin/