Poland's incumbent Andrzej Duda has won the presidential election, results from over 99 per cent of polling stations show, with remaining uncounted votes unlikely to sway the final outcome
Poland's incumbent Andrzej Duda has won the presidential election, results from over 99% of polling stations show, with remaining uncounted votes unlikely to sway the final outcome, the National Electoral Commission said on Monday.
The re-election of Duda, an ally of the ruling nationalists Law and Justice, is crucial if the government is to implement in full its conservative agenda, including judicial reforms that the EU says are undemocratic.Duda's challenger, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, had pledged to repair Poland's relations with Europe and use the presidential veto power to hold back any legislation that would subvert the rule of law.
He appeared conciliatory on Sunday. "If anyone was offended by anything I did or said in the last five years, not just during the campaign, please accept my apology," he told supporters in Pultusk, a small town north of the capital. For many religious conservatives in Poland, Trzaskowski came to represent the threats facing traditional values when he pledged to introduce education about LGBT rights in the city's schools.
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