Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller voted this morning in his country's referendum on European Union membership saying it was one of the biggest events in his country's history.
"I think that Poles will today confirm their choice of the right road for Poland, for our common future," Miller told reporters after casting his vote in the ballot box, painted in the red and white colours of the Polish flag.
"I think it is one of the biggest events in the one-thousand-year history of Poland," he said when casting his vote in his residential suburb of southern Warsaw accompanied by his wife Aleksandra.
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who cast his own vote in the same neighbourhood with his wife Jolanta, said he believed "all would go well" and that Poland's pro-European direction would not stop with the referendum.
Some 29.5 million Polish voters were registered to go to the polling stations to for the two-day referendum stating Saturday.
Polling stations opened at 6 a.m. (4 a.m. Irish time) and will stay open for 14 hours today and tomorrow.
The latest poll released on Thursday showed that 80.9 per cent of voters would say "yes", while 68 percent would definitely take part in the referendum.
However, turnout has been a real concern as more than half of registered voters must cast their ballots to validate the plebiscite, and Poles are traditionally reluctant to go to the polling stations.
AFP