Posted on 05/24/2015 5:45:07 PM PDT by mac_truck
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski conceded defeat to conservative challenger Andrzej Duda in Sunday's presidential election, a result that will set alarm bells ringing for the government, which faces its own election race later this year.
Komorowski had originally been seen as a shoo-in for another term in office, and his defeat reflected a desire among voters for new faces, and a sense that Poland's new-found prosperity was not being shared out equally.
The outgoing president, an ally of Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, announced he was conceding defeat after an exit poll showed he had won 47 percent to 53 percent for Duda. Official results have not yet been released.
"I respect your choice," Komorowski told a gathering of supporters. "I wish my challenger a successful presidency."
The victory for 43-year-old Duda marks the first major electoral win in almost a decade for his party, the opposition Law and Justice party. It is close to the Catholic church, socially conservative, and markets see it as less business-friendly than the governing Civic Platform.
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Gonna be interesting.
Sounds like a conservative vs. country club republican battle, with the Rovians losing.
Ping
Duda’s a strong nationalist and has been making noise about the foreign ownership of Polish banks. He wants the banks to buy back ownership.
It definitely is gonna make the German/Poland relationship more challenging, not to mention the Russian/Poland one.
WOW. When you consider how conservative and religious Catholic Poland is (I do business there, have family there etc.) it is a surprise. A welcome surprise. The Poles aren’t about to surrender to the gaystapo.
Take that, Ireland!
The Poles over there are the only real Catholics left in Ireland.
“The Poles over there are the only real Catholics left in Ireland.”
You can say that again!
The victory for 43-year-old Duda marks the first major electoral win in almost a decade for his party, the opposition Law and Justice party. It is close to the Catholic church, socially conservative, and markets see it as less business-friendly than the governing Civic Platform.
Indeed!
And yet another major country votes conservative joining Germany, the UK, Canada, Australia, Israel, Japan and many others, leaving the US ever more isolated as the most left-wing government in the developed world.
It won’t stop posters here mind you sneering at the lack of credentials of the conservatives being elected, because victorious conservative parties in Europe really need lessons in politics from “conservatives” in the US who can barely get dog catchers into office and utterly failed to stop an obvious charlatan like Obama being re-elected.
With each of these election victories and watching the swing to the left in Latin America it is becoming clearer that as more and more immigrants flood from south of the border that the US is becoming more like Latin America and a lot less like Europe. No surprise really, I suppose.
Sto Lat!
I thought the hottie would win ... Just sayin ..
I think Ireland remains having exceptionally restrictive abortion laws, just saying for everyone so disappointed. You can’t win every battle.
I don’t know, it seems PIS is really to the left of PO on economic issues, they seem enamored with the welfare state, but they’re better on Europe. I don’t know which I would vote for. Pretty cool though that Poland’s 2 major parties are both on the right.
I took a quiz there and both parties scored low for me, PIS scored very low. My top pick was a minor party called “Congress of the New Right”
What are...
Nowa Prawica
Ruch Narodowy
Polska Razem
PiS embraces economic interventionism - A social market economy, it also supports state healthcare and a guaranteed minimum social safety net
This is not conservatism
The Congress of the New Right is a little like UKIP having no seats in the Polish legislature but 2 EU Parliament seats. (they won 3 but one defected)
Sadly, you are so right.
My ancestors are rolling in their graves over the travesty in Ireland.
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