Perché i giovani della Polonia hanno votato per questo Ultra candidato (Mentzen)?
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Perché i giovani della Polonia hanno votato per questo Ultra candidato (Mentzen)?
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Because they are sick and tired of PO – PIS duopoly. Yes, this would be a case of curing toothache by blowing off your head, but still it’s a reason.
Mentzen’s support among young Poles is driven by his social media presence and economic discontent, reflecting a broader trend of youth support for far-right, anti-establishment parties across Europe. His stance on cultural issues and economic policies resonates with disillusioned young voters seeking systemic change.
* [‘The same faces, swapping places’: Polish candidates aim to break …](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/poland-presidential-election-candidates-slawomir-mentzen-adrian-zandberg)
* [PiS facing ‘existential’ fight as Polish election enters homestretch](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/the-far-right-disruptor-shaking-up-polands-presidential-election/)
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TikTok and X
Because Polish youth believes they will be millioners one day and they would get rich faster if healthcare was defunded, labour law abolished and immigration blocked. And Memcen promises them just that
1. People are getting tired of PiS-PO duopoly.
2. Mentzen focused his campaign on social media.
The older generation still remembers that populists are the losers, leaving only ruins and corpses behind them. The younger generation no longer wants to hear that.
They are brainwashed by Tiktok.
He fits well in redpill movement and uses it to his advantage, also poses as libertarian and a lot of young people without much experience with work and world in general, believe that lowering income taxes and privatizing and deregulating everything will make them rich. It works so long till you hit a wall like doctor visit with more complex problem than cold, or when your boss is complete povertriping slave driver and there is nothing you can and noone will help you. And the biggest thing unfortunately, he is viewed as only viable anti establishment figure in opposition to PO and PiS duopol on politics of last 20 years.
Fed up with two main parties.
translation for a german: is mentzen the equivalent of a höcke?
In case you haven’t noticed, the far right understood the assignment worldwide that if you want to target the youth, you have to go via social media. In the elections around 2021, the youth overwhelmingly voted progressive almost everywhere, this rapidly changed during the last few years. For some reason, all other parties missed this and are left behind so much. The main reason Die Linke was able to come back impressively during the recent election in Germany is because of their strong social media campaign. Most politicians being boomers that do not understand this begins to bite them in the ass.
Young people are tired of POPiS. Older generation 30-39 voted pretty much the same. With Mentzen and Zandberg winning over POPiS.
POPiS rules Poland for 30 years and they can’t achieve anything in sector like: healthcare, nuclear energy, innovation. Some sectors of our country are falling apart (especially healthcare). It’s underfinanced. POPiS continue to blame each other for the state of the country. Forgetting that they are in power for 3 decades already.
I am positively surprised with the percentage of votes for Zandberg. ~20% among youths vs ~5% total.
Because he’s young, hot, rich, anti-establishment.
If you vote for him you’ll have a hot stay-at-home wife that’ll take care of your 4 children in your two-story house while you drive your Porsche to work.
Also, there will be no more gays nor black people on Netflix. And all Ukrainians will go home because there are oh so many Poles willing to do their work.
Lol. So many half-truths.
First – he is a controversial figure with many crazy ideas. This automatically means he is preferred by social media algorithms for generating engagement. But that’s not all.
Second – if you google him, first thing you will most likely find is him endorsing catholic doctrine as the only law and morality needed in Poland. I’m not saying youth in Poland is catholic, but that speaks to many people.
Third – in his campaign he advocates for cutting down taxes and social help. Among others he proposes to cut down education (young poles probably remember how terrible school was) and to cut down ZUS (a public social security company that takes from the young and gives to the old).
Hey Poland, don’t let your youth fall for the russian schemes that us Romanians also (almost) fell into.
Studies show that young men are getting more and more intolerant because of influencers like Andrew Tate.
Because young people are sick of PO-PIS duopoly. Ages 18-29 according to IPSOS Exitpoll only in like 20%-30% voted for duopoly candidates. The rest were Mentzen, Zandberg, Braun, Biejat, Hołownia.
Also Tik Tok helps. Konfederacja is more established on social media like YT or TikTok or Twitter and Mentzen has more experience. On other hand Zandberg also scored a lot knowing his policies and that Poland is very conservative because Zandberg also started using similar strategy as Mentzen – Anti Coalition, focusing on anything but Abortion, Gays (which spooks electorate)
Mentzen had almost 20% support until Kanał Zero incident where he stated he is against Abortion, then suddenly 1/3 of his electorate evaporated. This shows power social media have and how well candidates hide their identity.
I know few people who voted Mentzen. They all know his ideology on Abortion, Gays but for them there are very specific issues that other candidates don’t deliver – He wants low taxes. I think it’s quite understandable that if you are 25 year old you don’t think “What help will I get when I get sick?” and just wanna maximalise income now.
Naivness.
Looks like Poland is getting increasingly frustrated with their independence and happy to surrender it to Putin.
I will say this all is typical protest/anti-establishment voting. It is typical for the youth to vote radical in general. There is also a worldwide trend in democracies to do anti-establishment voting as people often don’t believe old parties to be able to change anything, especially as of late as economic stagnation, higher prices and rents affected low income people the most.
There are several factors. First and the most important is that probably this young people during their lives knows only PO and PiS in charge. Since 2005 we have only the swapping stools. People are looking for alternative. And left alternative is non-existing in Poland. Left-wing parties here are plain populists, mostly targeting poorly educated electorate. It just cannot work. So the only real alternative for those people is in right wing. And Metnzen is the most balanced non-radical candidate here. I am not saying that he is mild in his worldview. But comparing to others open radicals like Braun or Maciak or even Korwin, he is ways more balanced. That’s why he gains so much attention.
They do as they are told on their favourite platform.
Younger generations have no memory of what the far right did. We’re well on our way to repeat History.
severe mental retardation, PiS – PO rivarly, global rar-right trend and bs
Twitter far right propaganda, its full of it. As i leftist i only get right wing propaganda on it.
Polland pls pay attention to what happend in Romania.
Fucking social media. Cancer of society.
I really don’t get it, why don’t you give Tusk a president that’ll support his government, so he can actually enact change? If the Poles elect another alt right asshole, nothing is going to change in the country. Everything will be blocked by presidential vetos.
They also vote more for Zandberg, 1 in 5…that’s promising
Very scary knowing the history of Poland and what the country went through…:
For the potential 4 years full of irl memes
the next generation is fed up with the idiots in charge for sure, but i also have a strong feeling that social media usage is also a significant factor. The usual social that is under the control of the chinese government (tiktok), and elon musk (twitter), both of whom are interested in pushing anti-eu, far right propaganda. Backed by a truly national scale russian psyop army, who are also more interested in pushing anti-eu, anti estabilishment propaganda. these factors together skew the balance heavily.
i have little hope, but i truly would like to see the current leadership wake the f*** up and start getting crap done. The eu as well, they should stop talking about co2 quotas and marginal issues, and pick up the pace, because if not, the chinese and russian disinfo will prevail and will break apart the union and the incredible prosperity it brought us all. people can deny it all they want, but since eastern europe joined the eu, their productivity exploded, and it wasnt the work of the local goverments.
Young people are anti-establishement and vote for extremes. The same with Zandberg, who was the furthest left wing of all candidates.