Poland election: PiS hopes to win third term and fend off Donald Tusk-led opposition – follow live

Government expected to face close race with opposition led by the former prime minister and European Council president

I ran into Igor Tuleya, a judge who has been strongly critical of PiS judicial policies, outside a Warsaw polling station this morning and asked him for his thoughts on the vote.

Tuleya, who was suspended from work for more than two years and has led a campaign against PiS’s attack on the judiciary, said he thought the elections were as important as the vote in 1989 which marked the beginning of the end of the communist era in the country.