President Andrzej Duda officially announced the parliamentary elections today, but the campaign will formally commence after the presidential decree is published in the Journal of Laws. The official election calendar will also be published then. Nevertheless, the most important deadlines are already known. The conclusions are obvious: there is little time, especially since it is the holiday season. On the other hand, if the president had waited until the last moment, there would have been even less time for signature collection.

The aforementioned decree should be published this week, because - according to the Electoral Code - it is made public in the Public Information Bulletin and announced in the Journal of Laws no later than the 5th day from the date of ordering the elections.

The deadline for registering electoral committees expires on August 24. The Electoral Code states that a political party's electoral committee is obliged to notify the National Electoral Commission (PKW) of its formation from the day the decree ordering the elections is announced until the 50th day before election day. An analogous provision exists for coalition committees.

Another important date is September 3 - according to the Code, the list of candidates is submitted to the district electoral commission no later than 12:00 AM on the 40th day before election day. An electoral committee may submit one list of candidates for deputies in each electoral district. The list of candidates should be supported by the signatures of at least 5000 voters who permanently reside in the given electoral district.

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