section_path: Conduct
section_name: Conduct
paragraph_text: Conduct
  
  In the lead-up to the election, a portion of the party subsidy was withheld from Law and Justice. The issue emerged after the National Electoral Commission ruled the party's financial report for the 2023 parliamentary campaign, and consequently its 2023 annual report, to be flawed. As a result, both the campaign dotation and the annual subsidy were reduced by approximately 11 million PLN. The ruling was appealed to the Supreme Court of Poland, where the Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs Chamber decided in favour of the party. This legally bound the commission to change its verdict, which happened on 30 December 2024. However, as the legitimacy of this particular Supreme Court chamber has been questioned by the ruling government and the Court of Justice of the European Union due to the ongoing rule of law crisis since 2017, the Minister of Finance Andrzej Domański refused to transfer the disputed funds. Ultimately, Nawrocki had to conduct his campaign without the funds transferred to PiS. Therefore, Nawrocki had to finance his campaign through a grassroot effort – around 50,000 supporters donated to his election effort.
  
  PiS launched the "Electoral Protection Movement" (Polish: Ruch Ochrony Wyborów), operated primarily by former Minister of Education Przemysław Czarnek, with the intention of safeguarding the democratic conduct of the election and protecting it from electoral fraud.
  
  Wirtualna Polska detailed allegations of an illegal advertising campaign on Facebook which favored Trzaskowski while attacking Nawrocki and Mentzen, with the advertising campaign having ties to the foreign company Estratos Digital GmbH based in Vienna and headed by two Hungarians — Ádám Ficsor and Viktor Szigetvári, with capital tied to the American Democratic Party. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) investigated the election and confirmed the allegations.
  
  The OSCE-PACE report further pointed out the bias of government institutions like NASK in favor of Trzaskowski. According to the report, public media, like TVP, was also biased, and depicted Nawrocki in a negative light. The Polish National Broadcasting Council released a report accusing TVP and TVN of supporting the Trzaskowski campaign, and TV Republika of supporting Nawrocki.
  
  Several politicians and journalists aligned with the ruling coalition partook in election denial. Roman Giertych claimed opposition committed organized electoral fraud, claiming also that Nawrocki's campaign was advantaged by a right-leaning TikTok algorithm, which helped them in the campaign. Many other journalists and politicians, like PKW member Ryszard Kalisz, called for a recount of the election. Other figures, like Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Trzaskowski's chief of staff also sowed doubt about the election results.
  
  By the end of the deadline for filing them, the Supreme Court of Poland received over 30,000 election complaints, 5 times more than in the 2020 presidential election, but significantly less than the 600,000 complaints following the 1995 presidential election. The complaints are largely about the incidents of the results being swapped in a few polling stations, after it was found that Nawrocki performed abnormally well in some isolated stations that heavily favored Trzaskowski in the first round. The campaign of Trzaskowski also filed a complaint and created a website for its supporters to help them file one as well. The Supreme Court ruled to recount the votes in 13 such stations. This led to calls for a complete recount of the election. According to a poll for Interia from 17-18 June, 49.1% of the respondents supported a complete recount of the election. However, Krzysztof Wiak, the President of the Supreme Court, declared that there is no legal basis for a complete recount of the election, as the recount can only be ruled in stations where irregularities occured.
  
  Anomalies were found in some voting station protocols where both candidates lost votes relative to the first round. Journalists investigating the situation have asserted that in 15 polling stations the results may have been flipped, but this wouldn't impact the result of the election as the number of votes potentially affected was well below the margin of victory for Nawrocki. On 12 June, the Supreme Court of Poland ordered a recount in 13 commissions, 0.04% of all 32,143 commissions.