Election silence extended
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
24.05.2015 21:01
The State Electoral Commission (PKW) has announced that the election silence in Sunday’s second round of the presidential ballot is to end at 10.30pm.
A sealed ballot box during Sunday's decisive presidential elections, 24.05.2015 Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak
The PKW said that due to a 90-minute break taken by the district commission in Kowale in the Skoczów municipality near Cieszyn, southern Poland, election silence had to be extended.
Voting officers in Skoczów had to announce a pause in election proceedings after a voter died in the polling station.
“We heard news that an ‘extraordinary event’ happened in Kowale, Cieszyn county, where at 5.35pm an 80-year-old lady suddenly weakened and despite an ambulance being called out immediately, she died in the polling station,” Sylwester Marciniak from PKW informed at a special press conference.
The extension to the election silence means exit polls will not be announced until after 10.30pm.
Meanwhile, all other polling stations in Poland closed on time. (jb)
Source: PAP