The decision caps a weekend during which the country's two largest parties announced their candidates for an election that will decide the successor to incumbent President Andrzej Duda, whose second and final term ends in August 2025.
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00:00Poland's opposition law and justice party has chosen historian Karol Nowroczki as its
00:07candidate for next year's presidential election.
00:10Forty-one-year-old Nowroczki has led the Institute of National Remembrance since 2021, a state
00:16body that houses archives and researches the crimes of World War II and the communist era.
00:22I'm ready to become your president, I'm ready because I've been with you all my life, he
00:27told supporters at a rally in Krakow.
00:30The party bypassed seasoned politicians, including former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, to
00:35tap the lesser-known Nowroczki to run for the highest office.
00:39The announcement came a day after the governing party, the Civic Coalition of Prime Minister
00:43Donald Tusk, announced that it was fielding progressive Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski
00:48as its candidate.
00:50The constitutional calendar dictates that the first round of the presidential election
00:54be held on a Sunday in May next year, though the date hasn't been set yet.
00:59If no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote in the first round, a runoff will
01:04be held two weeks later.