{"id":56105,"date":"2020-07-13T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/polish-president-duda-and-challenger-trzaskowski-in-tight-race-amid-high-turnout\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:21:19","slug":"polish-president-duda-and-challenger-trzaskowski-in-tight-race-amid-high-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/polish-president-duda-and-challenger-trzaskowski-in-tight-race-amid-high-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish President Duda and challenger Trzaskowski in tight race amid high turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poland\u2019s presidential runoff election was too close to call Sunday night as exit polling showed incumbent President Andrzej Duda ahead of challenger Rafal Trzaskowski.<\/p>\n

If Duda \u2014 an ally of President Trump \u2014 is reelected, he could help Poland\u2019s ruling right-wing party continue its hard-line policies, including efforts to force out independent judges, which have drawn rebukes from the European Union and human rights groups over the past five years.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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But a victory by the centrist opposition would mark a stunning change in Polish politics, allowing the pro-European Trzaskowski to veto laws passed by the right-wing government, which holds a majority in the lower house of Parliament. Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, has vowed to return Poland to E.U. standards on the rule of law.<\/p>\n

A late poll showed Duda at 51\u00a0percent and Trzaskowski at 49\u00a0percent. Official results were expected Monday, but counting could take longer. Both candidates expressed optimism Sunday that they had won the election.<\/p>\n

Pawel Zerka, a\u00a0policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, noted that the exit poll during the first round of voting in June had underestimated support for Duda. But he said other factors, including overseas voters, could work in Trzaskowski\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

Exit polling indicated the runoff might have drawn one of the highest presidential election turnouts since the end of communism three decades ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows that [Polish]\u00a0democracy is vibrant,\u201d said Zerka. \u201cBut it\u2019s also bad news, because it shows to what extent the society is really divided into tribes or camps. It is neatly divided in half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duda came in first during the initial round of voting last month<\/a>, but he failed to secure the majority he needed to avoid a runoff with Trzaskowski. Trzaskowski\u2019s approval ratings have jumped<\/a> since he entered the race in May.<\/p>\n

With polls showing no clear favorite, both candidates made last-minute appeals to their supporters on Friday. Trzaskowski cautioned that a Duda win would allow the government to continue its course and suggested that a change in Polish politics had to be \u201cnow or never.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trzaskowski told The Washington Post that he had seen a \u201crevival of the society, of all the people who want to be involved and who want to protest and who want change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duda, who during the campaign suggested that efforts to advance LGBT rights were worse than communism, vowed Friday to strengthen the Polish state, which he said was \u201cbuilt on our inviolable and sacred tradition.\u201d Duda\u2019s campaign sought to highlight efforts by the ruling Law and Justice party to narrow inequality by expanding social benefits, which has mainly helped poorer voters in rural areas that are right-wing strongholds.<\/p>\n

In Warsaw, a 74-year-old pensioner named Jadwiga said Sunday she voted for Duda in part because of more expansive pension payments passed by the right-wing parliamentary majority. A Trzaskowski win, she said, would benefit only \u201cthe elite, the rich people, who are in the minority in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am afraid that if Trzaskowski wins the election, Poland will not be Poland,\u201d she added. She declined to give her last name.<\/p>\n

Pawel Wojcik, a 40-year-old civil servant, said a Duda victory would mean a continued \u201cviolation of the constitution\u201d and more division. A Trzaskowski victory, he said, would \u201cguarantee that Poland will return to the path of respecting the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Duda\u2019s reelection appeared almost certain, with polls showing a comfortable lead. But his approval ratings declined during the spring as the first signs of a coronavirus recession took hold.<\/p>\n

The Law and Justice party attempted to shield Duda from voter anger over the economy by trying to hold the first round of voting as scheduled on May 10, despite the country\u2019s outbreak. But the vote was pushed back to June.<\/p>\n

The leading Civic Platform opposition party replaced its earlier presidential candidate, who had failed to gain momentum, with Trzaskowski, who managed to re-energize the race by promising to unite the country.<\/p>\n

While Trzaskowski has warned that a Duda win would continue Poland\u2019s confrontation with the E.U., Duda has prioritized relations with the Trump administration. Days before the first round of voting, Duda flew to Washington<\/a> to meet Trump at the White House.<\/p>\n

Trump said he believed Duda would be \u201cvery successful.\u201d But he made no commitment<\/a> to permanently increase the number of U.S. troops in Poland \u2014 a key objective of the Law and Justice party.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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