20 minutes agoPoland in fever: Poppulist Duda wins presidential election
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Andreze Duda has won the presidential election in Poland after this morning's preliminary results give the current president 51.2 per cent of the vote in almost all votes counted, the country's national electoral commission has announced. His liberal counterCandid, Rafal Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw, received 48.8 percent, [...]
His liberal counterCandid, Rafal Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw, received 48.8 percent, writes The Guardian, after Periscope.
The head of the national election commission said the final results would become known later, but added Duda was already leading by half a million votes.
The runoff was too tough on both sides, with Duda promising another mandate supporting Poland's ruling populist party legislative agenda and with Trszaskowski promising to become the face of a different Poland.
Duda had run a very divisive campaign in which she promised to support the “family values” against the rights of the LGB community and often used homophobic rhetoric.
His victory would give the ruling Law and Justice party control of the most important leverages of power for years. /Periscope
