Democracy hangs in the balance as Poles go to the polls in decisive election

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The one thing almost everyone in Poland seems to agree on is that Sunday's elections are the most important the country has held since 1989 and the fall of communism. And they're on a knife-edge. The ruling nationalist Law and Justice party, known by its Polish acronym PiS, is aiming for a historic third term. That could be bad news for the EU, which has been at loggerheads with Warsaw since PiS came to power in 2015 and began a process of taking over the courts and media. Critics of PiS say party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a dictator in the making. His supporters believe the opposition would surrender Poland's sovereignty. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from a deeply divided country gripped by election fever.