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- Opposition presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki has announced that he and his wife have decided to donate to charity the second apartment they own which has caused a scandal ahead of next week's election. "Evil must be overcome with good," he writes
- Exhumation work that began last month in Ukraine to recover the remains of Poles massacred by Ukrainian nationalists during WWII has so far uncovered skeletal fragments of at least 42 people. Researchers will now seek to establish the identities of the victims.
- Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has found that parts of the state budget cutting funding for two judicial bodies, including the TK itself, are unconstitutional. The decision is likely to be ignored by the government, which does not recognise the TK's legitimacy.
- "We are facing an unprecedented attempt by Russia to interfere in the current presidential elections in Poland," says digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski. "There is no other country in the EU that faces similar threats", but "Poland knows how to defend itself".
- President Duda has vetoed a government bill lowering health insurance contributions paid by business owners. His office says the law would have significantly cut revenue for public healthcare and was contrary to constitutional principles of social justice.
