Poland's momentous presidential runoff too close to call

A woman casts her vote during presidential runoff election in Krakow, Poland, Sunday, July 12, 2020. Voting started Sunday in Poland’s razor-blade-close presidential election runoff between the conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda and liberal, pro-European Union Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.

Trzaskowski, a former European Parliament lawmaker, jumped into the race relatively late to oppose Duda’s denigration of urban liberals, the LGBT community and other minorities and to counter an erosion of democratic rights under the ruling party. He represented the centrist opposition Civic Platform party that was in power in from 2007 to 2015.The result is expected to lead to starkly different political paths for Poland, at least until 2023, when the next parliamentary election is scheduled.

If Duda is reelected, the right-wing Law and Justice party will continue to have a close ally in the president and maintain its hold on almost all key instruments of power in the nation of 38 million people. A win for Trzaskowski would give him the power to veto laws passed by the ruling conservatives and give Poland a less contentious relationship with EU officials.

“In the situation when we see constant discord, divisions, the rift in society, let him be a unifying one, the president of all Poles,” Polak said after voting in Gniezno.Duda voted in his hometown of Krakow while Trzaskowski voted in his wife’s southern hometown of Rybnik. But the ruling party has drawn criticism from EU leaders for taking steps to politically influence the justice system and the media in Poland. It has also deepened social rifts with verbal attacks on urban liberals and the LGBT community.

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This shit happens in countries with crap education in the religious countryside. It spawns xenophobia and racism. Cases in point: Poland, Turkey, Russia, United States.

The tide...she is turning...🙏

I’m confident that Duda will win!

'They' will fix it. So the conservative can win.

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