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Andrzej Duda (L) is dealing with Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.
Why run-off presents Poles with clear option
If the incumbent President Andrzej Duda is re-elected for another five-year term, his allies, the nationalist Law and Justice-led federal government will continue their socially conservative policies, efforts to manage independent organizations and generous state handout programme.
If the more liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, wins, he has actually said he will stand up for minorities and utilize the president’s right to ban legislation to obstruct what he sees as the federal government’s efforts to politicise the judiciary and attack democratic values.
Mr Trzaskowski states he will co-operate with the federal government but a victory for him would almost certainly begin a war between the two branches of power.
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The socially conservative Mr Duda has a lot of support in towns and villages.
This is especially real in villages and little towns, where President Duda won an absolute majority of votes in the first round of the election two weeks earlier.
On the other hand, he has actually promised to