Polish citizens across the country and around the world will be voting in person or by mail today for a slate of 11 candidates for the Polish presidency. Under a set of rules approved by parliament and signed into law earlier this month, the election will be conducted via a mixed system of postal and traditional in-person voting. If no single candidate gets over 50% of the vote this round, under Polish election rules, a second round of elections will be held July 12.
Polls opened at 7:00 this morning will remain open until 21:00 this evening. A media blackout is currently in effect until after polls officially close, at which point Radio Gdańsk will be posting updated results.
Source: Radio Poland
Lewandowski named top player in Bundesliga
Polish football phenom Robert Lewandowski has been named the Bundesliga’s top player for the 2019/2020 season.
In a poll conducted by the official Bundesliga website, the 31-year-old Polish striker won by a landslide with 57 percent of the votes, with the closest runner up, Jadon Sancho, coming in at a distant 13 percent.
Lewandowski scored 33 goals this year in the Bundesliga, and with a career total of 235 goals, he remains the third-highest scorer in the German premier league’s history. He was the top scorer of Germany’s Bundesliga in the 2018/2019 season, his fourth such trophy since he began playing in Germany in 2010.
Source: Radio Poland
Lechia Gdańsk vs. Białystok Jagiellonia today
For local football fans, Lechia Gdańsk will be facing off today against Jagiellonia Białystok in the Championship round for the Ekstraklasa League title.
Team captain Flavio Paixao, who scored the game-winning goal in the most recent match against second-ranked Piast Gliwice, sounded cautiously optimistic about today’s match. “This is our moment,” he told a reporter from Trojmiasto.pl. “We started off the championship well, we beat the strongest teams, and we are going in the right direction.”
Following today’s match at 15:00, The 5th-ranked White and Green will face off against the 7th-ranked Cracovia next Saturday.
Source: Radio Gdańsk, Trójmiasto.pl
Sopot launches eco-friendly parking program
Last Friday Sopot launched its fourth-annual “Eco Buffer” parking program which provides transport to the beach and Sopot city center from Ergo Arena.
From now until August 30, 24-hour free parking is available in some 700 spaces outside Ergo Arena, which guests are encouraged to utilize in an effort to limit traffic and overcrowding in and around the resort town. Daily buses between the arena and Sopot run every 20 minutes from 10:00 to 20:00 and tickets cost 3 PLN.
Source: Radio Gdańsk
Call for pandemic monodramas
The Theatrum Gedanense Foundation and Teatr w Oknie in Gdańsk are currently accepting applications for the third edition of their “Monoteatr” competition, which will be based on the theme of the coronavirus pandemic.
A select panel of jurors will choose eight individual finalists whose artistic statements best encapsulate the experience of living through the pandemic. According to Magdalena Hajdysz of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, jurors are looking for works that not only address feelings of isolation, insecurity, and uncertainty but also demonstrate the need to maintain social connections and stay hopeful.
The competition is open from now until July 31, with finalists receiving a cash prize as well as technical support to professionally record their monodrama for the online competition in October. More information on the Monoteatr competition (in Polish) is available here: https://bit.ly/monoteatr2020
Source: Radio Gdańsk
Weather
Today will be hot and humid with a good chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon and late evening. Temperatures will peak around a high of 26°C, or 78°F, dropping slightly overnight to 17°C or 62°F. Clouds and a chance for scattered rain showers are expected to stick around through most of tomorrow, with sunshine returning on Tuesday.
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