The first round for the presidential election to Poland It will take place next Sunday (18.05.2025), however, the competent national cyber security authorities of the country announced today (14.05.2025) the attempt to mix a foreign country.
Specifically, NASK, the National Institute of Research, which deals with cyber security in Poland, has revealed attempted to mix in the presidential election, with Facebook ads as part of the election campaign, which was probably funded by overseas.
As for the forthcoming presidential election, the liberal its mayor Warsaw, Rafal Transkovsky, a senior executive of the ruling Citizens’ Party Party, will be confronted with Historical Carol Navroskiwhich is chief of the Polish Institute of National Memory and with far -right Slavomir Medzen.
‘NASK misinformation center found political ads on Facebook platform where They may be funded by abroad. The material was presented in Poland, “he said in a statement
“The advertising accounts involved in the campaign spent more on political material in the last 7 days than any electoral committee,” NASK said, but did not clarify which country the funding could have come from.
Poland has stated in the past that its role as a helping node to Ukraine makes it basic target for Russian espionage, sabotage and cyberattacks.
Rafal Transkovsky has the lead in the run -up to the presidential election on May 18, with 33.7%, according to an IBRIS poll for the weekly Polityka magazine published today.
Carol Navrotsky, a candidate supported by the basic opposition law and justice party (PIS), is holding 21.6%, followed by the candidate of the far -right Confederation Slavomir Mendzen, with 11.8%.
The The result of the ballot box will be judged among these three candidateswith the others gaining single -digit percentages.
If None of the candidates exceed 50% in the first roundo, will follow second round on June 1, 2025 between two dominant.