Posted on 07/11/2020 2:02:50 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
With just three days to go, the race to be Poland's next president is too close to call.
Latest polling by Kantar currently credits the Warsaw mayor and opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski with 50.6 per cent of the vote.
Incumbent president Andrzej Duda, an independent aligned with the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is seen gathering 49.4 per cent of the vote.
Duda, 48, was widely expected to win the election before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Europe.
The economic impact of lockdown and a controversial attempt to push ahead with an election in May significantly narrowed his lead.
The election was eventually postponed until Sunday, June 28. That saw Duda, with around 43.5 per cent of the vote, and Trzaskowski, on 30.5 per cent, emerge as the most popular candidates and set up a second-round run-off on Sunday, July 12.
Trzaskowski, from the main opposition centre-right Civic Platform (PO) party, only announced his candidacy in mid-May — after the ballot was initially scheduled to be held. He quickly surged in the polls and deprived Duda of an outright victory in the first round, achieved when a candidate gets more than 50 per cent of the vote share.
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Pronounced “Trash-ko-witz” I assume.
*correction “Trash-can-ski”
See tagline.
So, I suppose Poland is sick and tired of not being flooded by rapey and burn the city down immigrants.
Soros is all over this one.
Is Andrzej Duda related to Zippidy Duda?
No, Trzaskowski is pronounced “T shas kov ski”
rz is pronounced like “sh” in “sheep”
w is pronounced like the english “v”
i is pronounced like “ee” in “sheep”
The true conservative party in the fiscal and social sense is Konfederacja, which is a coalition of parties.
PiS - Prawo i Sprawiedliwość = Law and Justice is
Konfederacja has a large number of parties, but has actual plans to cut down LGBT propaganda etc. however they've been branded "far-right" - which they aren't. They are not racist or xenophobic. They don't want Muslim immigrants, but are ok with Muslim Tartars who have been there in Poland for centuries and are ok with immigrants from Christian lands if they don't go against Polish culture.
I held my nose and voted Duda. But there would be many social conservatives who would be concerned with the way PiS is consolidating power and promising pork bellies to get votes while doing nothing really to consolidate conservatism.
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