Polish election: Tusk party urged to show it is not ‘deceiving women’ on abortion

Five years after near-total ban on abortion, campaigners say Sunday's elections will be critical to see if promised change happens

Poland's presidential elections are a historic, groundbreaking" chance for Donald Tusk's centrist party to show it was not trying to deceive women" when it promised to change some of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws, campaigners have said.

Voters across Poland will head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the elections to replace Andrzej Duda, the current president who is aligned with the former rightwing government and has veto power over legislation.