{"id":560,"date":"2009-06-06T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-06-06T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:23:20","slug":"going-to-the-polls-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/going-to-the-polls-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Polls Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow we have the European parliamentary election (wybory do Europarlamentu<\/strong>) and I still don\u2019t know who to vote for.<\/p>\n

This will be my very first voting in Poland and I am determined to participate. I have zameldowanie<\/strong> (official registered domicile), I have dow\u00f3d osobisty<\/strong> (ID card) and I am eligible to vote. Don\u2019t laugh, but for me this is a big deal. I feel like a giddy 18 year old.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one problem \u2013 na kogo powinnam g\u0142osowa\u0107<\/strong> (who should I vote for)?<\/p>\n

I said once before that I wasn\u2019t going to write about polityka<\/strong> (politics) on this blog, so instead of politics, let\u2019s talk about the general pain of choosing a worthy candidate.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, the candidates, you can\u2019t have an election without them. And simply put, from my point of view all of them are bad choices. Or maybe I don\u2019t know enough about them to form a positive opinion just yet?<\/p>\n

I asked my hosts here about what I should do, and they, in a typically practical Polish manner, advised me to stop thinking about the issues and election promises and vote for the least bad of the bunch.<\/p>\n

In order to learn more about the elections, I went to the website of Pa\u0144stwowa Komisja Wyborcza<\/a><\/strong> (National Election Committee). There\u2019s a multitude of menu options on that page, but locating a complete list of all the candidates in the country is not so easy.<\/p>\n

And when I finally found it, I was disappointed. I was hoping for a bit more than an alphabetical list of names in a pdf format.<\/p>\n

I went to ask my neighbors where our assigned election place is, because I have no idea, but they just looked at me with a slightly annoyed expression.
\n\u201cGlosowanie?<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> (wybory) the lady next door said. \u201cI have no idea, but I\u2019ll ask when I go to church tomorrow.\u201d<\/em>
\nI wanted to know if she was planning to vote. \u201cNah, it\u2019s my cousin\u2019s birthday, I\u2019m going to Pruszcz<\/strong> right after church.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I finally found this local election page<\/a> and it has all the info I needed.<\/p>\n

There was even a handy quiz to help me determine which political party is the closest to my personal opinions. The results surprised me totally, to say the least. I\u2019ve never thought of myself as a social democratic leftie.
\nSo, now if you excuse me, I have to read up some more about the candidates that the quiz suggested I have the most in common with.<\/p>\n

If you are a foreign EU citizen in Poland, what is the election process like for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow we have the European parliamentary election (wybory do Europarlamentu) and I still don\u2019t know who to vote for. This will be my very first voting in Poland and I am determined to participate. I have zameldowanie (official registered domicile), I have dow\u00f3d osobisty (ID card) and I am eligible to vote. Don\u2019t laugh, but…<\/p>\n

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