Poland's Pro-Family President Re-Elected by Narrow Margin

Dorothy Cummings McLean : Jul 16, 2020
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"This election also shows that in Poland, despite the crushing dominance of liberal-left media, there is still a strong conservative and Catholic spirit; the election turnout was the biggest in 25 years." -Krystian Kratiuk of Polonia Christiana magazine

(Warsaw, Poland) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Poland's president was re-elected with 51.2 percent of the vote on Sunday. (Photo Credit: Poland President Andrzej Duda via Wikimedia Commons)

President Andrzej Duda, 48, of the center-right Law and Justice (PiS) party managed to see off challenger Rafał Trzaskowski, also 48, of the center-left Civic Platform (PO) party in an election with the highest voter turnout in 25 years.

The election battle was closely fought, and 68.2 percent of Poland's eligible voters turned out to cast their ballot in Sunday's second round. The two contenders were so closely matched in the exit polls that it was not immediately apparent that Duda had actually won.

The first round of the 2020 presidential elections occurred on June 28. That Sunday Duda received 43.5 percent of the vote and Trzaskowski, the current Mayor of Warsaw, 30.5 percent. During this round the president was challenged for the social conservative vote by the National Movement's Krzysztof Bosak, 38, who received 6.79 percent.

The Polish choice was not only between two candidates but between two philosophies: traditional Polish family values versus a globalist pro-LGBT ethos. Krystian Kratiuk of Polonia Christiana magazine told LifeSiteNews that Trzaskowski's near-success is evidence of "significant changes" in society...

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