#englishnews #Polandelection <br /><br />News Article :-<br />Poland elects a new parliament this weekend after a bitterly fought campaign that has seen each side paint the other аs a dire, national threat.<br /><br />The governing, right-wing Law and Justice party, or PiS, is battling to secure a record third term in office.<br /><br />It says the opposition would weaken Poland with mass migration and chaos.<br /><br />The centrist main opposition Civic Coalition wants to end eight years of PiS rule, arguing that the party is a threat to Polish democracy itself.<br /><br />Both campaigns have been highly personalised with each party demonising the other's leader.<br />But with opinion polls suggesting neither of the main parties is on course for an outright majority, the final days and hours of campaigning have been intense.<br /><br />All over Poland, lamp-posts and railings are plastered with the images of election candidates.<br /><br />They offer a choice from the far-right Confederation that wants to cut aid to Ukraine to a left-wing party that talks about LGBT rights and returning the right to abortion.<br /><br />But this race has mostly focused on two men and two parties: PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Civic Coalition head Donald Tusk.<br /><br />On Friday, they made their final pitches to voters.<br /><br />In Starachowice, south of Warsaw, Jaroslaw Kaczynski repeated his mantra that a Poland governed by Donald Tusk would in fact be ruled "by a phone call from Berlin or Moscow".<br /><br />He has consistently painted his rival as a puppet of both Russia and Germany: the logic doesn't matter as much as the suggestion that Mr Tusk is unpatriotic and a security threat.<br /><br />Mr Kaczynski pointed to his own party's massive boost in military spending, with both Russia and Ukraine on Poland's border.<br /><br />Stoking fear about migration is another PiS favourite, including with endless footage on state TV highlighting protests and riots in Europe.<br /><br />The party leader stressed that PiS would "absolutely reject" an EU relocation plan for illegal migrants.<br /><br />But he also had a positive message for the final stretch of the campaign.<br /><br />"We have offered Poles a better life," Mr Kaczynski told voters, mentioning higher wages and pensions. "This election is about whether that will continue."<br /><br />More from Sarah Rainsford: Vociferous campaign splits Poland ahead of key election<br /><br />Donald Tusk contends that continuing with PiS would be a disaster.<br />While Poland has won plaudits for its role supporting Ukraine since the Russian invasion, there's real concern about its commitment to defending key elements of democracy at home.<br />The EU is withholding large amounts of funding over the politicisation of Poland's courts.<br />Civic Coalition highlights that issue, as well as increased control of the press and far more antagonism with Europe - trends that it worries will intensify if PiS are re-elected.<br />Some fear the trajectory is so bad, it could undermine Poland's membership of the EU itself.<br />On Friday, though, all Donald Tusk's talk was of winning.<br />"We are one step away from victory," he claimed in
