REUTERS/ Floods have plagued Poland since mid-May and are now overshadowing the 20 June presidential election as weather officials forecast more storms in southern Poland in the coming week. Many Poles are also angry that emergency aid has been delayed because of the upcoming election. Warsaw expects a new flood crest on the Vistula river while Budapest sandbagged against the Danube and Slovakia suffers its worst flood in centuries. Preliminary losses caused by the first wave of floodwater in Poland two weeks ago - 18 lives and 2.5 billion euros. PM Donald Tusk asserted that there was no need to declare a nationwide state of emergency caused by the flooding and would be taken only with difficulties in evacuating the affected population.
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