Warsaw, Poland – Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that his centrist party was the target of cyber attacks and suggested that it could be an intervention from the East – meaning Russia or Belarus, ahead of next month’s Polish presidential election.
Tusk announced on the X platform that his civic platform party’s computer system is targeted.
“Foreign intervention in elections began. Services pointed to the traces of the East,” Tusk said.
Jan Grabiec, head of Tusk’s Office, told Polish State News Agency PAP that cyber attacks include attempts to control the Citizen Platform Office and the computers of electoral personnel, about a dozen hours on Wednesday.
Asked if Tusk pointed his finger at Russia or Belarus, Grabouch said it would be a secret service in Poland to comment, but in the past, Belarusians infiltrated Poland’s systems on behalf of Russian intelligence services.
Poland is only a few weeks away from the first round of the presidential election scheduled for May 18.
Frontrunner is the mayor of Warsaw, the Citizen Platform candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski, who is like Tusk a pro-European centrist. He has been voting about 35%.
His main competitors include conservatives backed by the Law and Judiciary Party, Karol Nawrocki, who ranked second in most polls by more than 20%, and co-leader of far-right federal candidate Sławomir Mentzen, who has been voting about 20%.
Runoff will be held on June 1 if no candidate wins at least 50% of the vote on May 18.
