In one corner, reigning president, Komorowski, a bit dim-witted, over-conservative hunter-farmer from PO. About his only advantage was Tusk support, and people being content with him not rocking the boat, but ever since Tusk left, Ukrainian policy crashed with genocide scandal and his advisors did literally everything to squander 65% support he had two months ago hist literally only hope is winning (somehow) in first stage by protests movements dividing their votes. Or, failing that, by general mobilisation in second stage by everyone afraid of populists.
In other corner, populist right wing puppet, Duda, from PiS. Looks sane and more competent than the above, but sadly, he is just figurehead in the hands of xenophobic, obscurantist party. Since his vote base is second largest he hopes to fight in second stage of election, which will happen if Komorowski fails to get 50.1% of votes. Which is sadly possible, but only thanks to Komorowski's (non) efforts.
Third corner, two tiny left wing parties with frankly ridiculously stupid candidates. Girl that can at best be summed as Polish Palin and a guy who used to be fundie libertarian Christian but somehow turned left wing, somehow because it doesn't show other than his support for decriminalizing marijuana. Where's good old commie or social democrat when you need them?
Four corner, protest coalition dubbed 'ku klux klan' in big part due to their outlook, doesn't have any chance of winning but runs as preparation before run on parliament or to sell their electorate to highest bidder for concessions. Sad part is, they might be half-fascist, half-libertarian, half-idiots but a lot of their support is drawn from Poles being tired of jingoist, warmongering xenophobia on top of proposed arms race to show Russia we're STRONK. No one else bothered to look for these votes, only one left wing party halfheartedly said discussion is better than knee jerk buying of useless military junk and was immediately branded as Putin's agents. Sad.
What I predict will happen, we will copy USA yet again and even centre-right Komorowski will think his loss support is due to not being conservative church dwelling bigot enough and the whole lot will turn even more right wing, completely ignoring huge mass of green and left wing voters who have no one to vote for. Learning from the fate of Democrats and Labour would actually require reading in English, something that would sadly elude that mass of under-educated conservative/nationalist idiots.
