IMHO Duda is a redistributionist of the old school (”populist” my ass) and will cozy up to Putin, IOW, he’ll be a disaster.
By conservative, this is what the media means:
Andrzej Duda slammed Bronislaw Komorowski for acknowledging Polish farmers’ massacre of Jewish neighbors in Jedwabne
http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-exit-poll-polish-president-concedes-defeat-to-rival/
Andrzej Duda wins after criticizing outgoing president for recognizing Polish complicity in murder of Jews
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/195793
At debate, Polish president defends apologies for country’s Holocaust complicity
http://www.jta.org/2015/05/22/news-opinion/world/at-presidential-debate-polish-president-apologizes-for-holocaust-complicity
Pro life Catholic and Polish nationalist is what he is. The kind that routinely gets defamed by the media for anti-Semitism. Interesting that a Jewish father-in-law, “Julian Kornhauser, a well-known Polish-Jewish writer, translator and literary critic” apparently is not losing any sleep over this.
Being friendlier with Putin is certainly the most likely definition of “Euro-skeptic” in this context.
It does make me wonder if, by contrast, pro-EU opponents of Putin will eventually be labeled “Eurasia-skeptic”, since Putin basically runs what he calls the Eurasian Union?
Well bugger. I think, why does the media call this conservative? And then I recall that they call Putin himself and his party of lapdogs conservative. “Nationalist” and “religious” does not = conservative.
Much more important than the Presidency are the upcoming elections for Parliament this fall.