Polish Politics and Elections

[rob in cal]

  Did the German minority representative take a pro PiS stance in the last parliament?

[rob in cal]

  So why is it that there is still a significant German minority in the Opole region unlike any of the other former German silesian or pomeranian areas.

[rob in cal]

Any ideas of what % Duda's camp is hoping to get to put them in a good position for the runoff?

[rob in cal]

How much of the Biedron and WKK electorate is winnable for Duda?  Would some left leaning voters who supported them be from the lower less educated classes and might like Duda over Trzaskowski?

[rob in cal]

Outside of Holownia have any other candidates endorsed yet? Is it normal for endorsements after the 1st round by the losing candidates?

[rob in cal]

  So whats the story of the Pis government's immigration policy? I read some Bosak supporters twitter where he claimed that immigration has increased massively under Pis, and found some article that mentioned lots of Ukrainians coming in as well as lots of South Asians. I would think having lots of non-Europeans immigrating to Poland, as in the case of the South Asians, if thats true, would certainly show that the Pis government isn't that strongly against non-European immigration to Poland.

[rob in cal]

Prediction time.  I think Trzaskowski by a whisker.

[rob in cal]

What will be biggest specific policy changes under new govt?

[rob in cal]

Will the new coalition of parties be ideologically coherent enough to govern effectively?

[rob in cal]

Guessing that because Opole region in Upper East Silesia had so many mixed ethnicity Germans with some Polish ancestry, they were able to avoid, at least in some cases expulsion after WW2. In so many other areas east of Oder Neisse line the areas were so purely German that few could claim a Polish ancestry?

[rob in cal]

What role did immigration play in the election, and is Tusk supportive of  a more liberal stance on the issue.