Poles vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday which the opposition says will determine the country's democratic standing and place in the European Union, after a bitterly contested campaign dominated by issues of sovereignty and security.
Since coming to power in 2015, the nationalist Law and Justice party has repeatedly clashed with the EU over reforms that critics say have politicised the judicial system and turned state-owned media into a propaganda outlet.
"Für Deutschland, that is, for Germany. He repeated these words very often," PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told a campaign rally, hammering home his party's message that Tusk is a Tusk pledged not to end any of the programmes and has said an increase in child benefits should be implemented sooner. However, the opposition says that PiS is misusing public funds for a campaign exercise designed to energise its supporters and demonise opponents with loaded questions.
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