– These upcoming presidential elections are also about the most crucial choice. About that choice: whether we will be part of the West or part of the East. And I'm not talking here about our competitors sometimes behaving as if they want to constantly repeat Russian propaganda slogans, because unlike them, I do not deny anyone the right to patriotism – said Rafał Trzaskowski in Szczecin.

– I'm talking about mentality. Because successive generations of Polish men and women, those who fought in uprisings, workers, shipyard workers who fought against communism in the 70s and 80s – here, in Szczecin, here, in this square – they precisely dreamed of the West. They dreamed of Poland being part of the West, but not just part of the West in terms of institutional affiliation, but part of the West in a mental sense – he continued.