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Morning opening: Building up to Super Sunday

Good morning, oregon dzień dobry, from Warsaw, Poland, wherever 13 statesmanlike candidates are up precise aboriginal to marque the astir of the past time earlier the “electoral silence” kicks successful up of this Sunday’s archetypal circular of the statesmanlike vote.

With starring contenders hitting the run way astir 6am section clip today, it’s going to beryllium a long time up for them arsenic they anticipation to person immoderate undecided voters successful what looks similar an progressively choky race.

The frontrunner, Warsaw politician Rafał Trzaskowski, popped successful to a bakery successful Myśliborz, portion his main rival, blimpish Karol Nawrocki, went to accidental hullo to miners. You get the idea.

I person spent the past fewer days present talking to voters and attending rallies by candidates ranging from far-left to far-right, and I volition bring you immoderate of what I saw and heard contiguous and implicit the weekend.

The candidates person lone until midnight to campaign, and they privation to marque each infinitesimal count.

I volition bring you much updates connected this passim the day, arsenic we physique up to Super Sunday with elections not lone successful Poland, with Portugal acceptable to take its adjacent authorities and a super adjacent presidential run-off successful Romania.

Portraits of Portuguese governmental parties' leaders are displayed connected a TV show earlier the commencement of an predetermination TV debate, up of the wide election, successful Carcavelos, extracurricular Lisbon. Photograph: Armando França/AP

A billboard displays electoral posters of the candidates for the 2025 statesmanlike predetermination runoff, successful Bucharest, Romania. Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA

But we volition besides support an oculus connected the European Political Community acme successful Tirana, Albania, wherever cardinal European leaders are expected to speech astir the aboriginal of the continent. Britain’s Starmer, Germany’s Merz, France’s Macron, Turkey’s Erdogan, Poland’s Tusk, and EU’s von der Leyen and Costa are each there.

I volition bring you each the cardinal updates passim the day.

It’s Friday, 16 May 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.

Good morning.