Poland and Hungary Vote in Critical Elections

Poland votes

People cast ballots at a polling station in Witow, southern Poland, Photo: EPA-EFE/GRZEGORZ MOMOT

A polling station in a tailor's shop in Czerwonak, in west-central Poland, is decorated for Poland's general election. Photo: EPA-EFE/JAKUB KACZMARCZYK

Grzegorz Schetyna, head of Poland's main opposition party, Civic Platform, and his wife, Kalina, vote at a polling station in Wroclaw. Photo: EPA-EFE/MACIEJ KULCZYNSKI

Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz prepares to vote at a polling station in Warsaw. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOMASZ GZELL

Hungary votes

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of the governing Fidesz party prepares to cast his ballot in Budapest. Mayors and assembly members will be elected for five years. Photo: EPA-EFE/Szilard Koszticsak

A woman checks her ballot papers during local elections in Budapest. Photo: EPA-EFE/Szilard Koszticsak

A ballot box is officially sealed by a member of the election committee at the start of nationwide local elections in Budapest. Photo: EPA-EFE/SZILARD KOSZTICSAK

Participants during a protest against mayor Zsolt Borkai and the government gather in front of the City Hall in Gyor, Hungary, on 12 October 2019. The Mayor of Gyor, Zsolt Borkai, who is running for re-election on 13 October with the support of the governing Fidesz party, has been implicated in a major sex and corruption scandal, after graphic material of him allegedly participating in an orgy on a yacht in Croatia was leaked a week ago. Photo: EPA-EFE/Csaba Krizsan

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