Majority of Poles against holding presidential election on May 10

A vast majority of Poles oppose holding presidential elections as scheduled on May 10 and want to put them off until next year due to the coronavirus epidemic, according to a poll conducted by researcher IBRiS for the daily Rzeczpospolita. Nearly 72.4 percent of respondents declaring themselves supporters of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and thus its candidate, incumbent President Andrzej Duda, want the elections to be held in 2021. Fully 88 percent of Poles supporting the president's main contender, Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, a representative of the main opposition party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), were in favour of postponing the presidential elections.