A glimmer of hope for Poland

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first choice in Europe in coronaens time can carry in a notice that also political normalization can get. In the presidential election in Poland on Sunday, got sitting president Andrzej Questions a little more than 43 percent of the vote. It means that he must be out in the omvalg 12. July, where he meets The liberal mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who got a little over 30 per cent. It is a settlement with clear and distinct options. On the one hand, Questions, which for all practical purposes represents the verdipolitisk reactionary Law and rettferdighetspartiet. On the other hand, Trzaskowski, who represents the liberal opposition.

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Option only two weeks is an important choice in Europe. It's all about "the illiberale democracy", however, may be continued in Poland after the Law and rettferdighetspartiet already has made the state broadcasting into a clean propagandakanal for the party, and after that the courts are tried under the state - i.e. the party's control. The choice 12. July is whether it is possible to avoid the reintroduction of the one-party-states in the democratic EU, more than 30 years after the communist one-party states were shattered with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.

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The two challengers is distributed evenly in the polls ahead of a 2. valgomgang. They or most of them, which on Sunday voted for candidates other than hovedutfordrerne will vote on Trzaskowski about less than two weeks. And even for the presidency of Poland are mostly ceremonial, so the choice is important. For the first so does it mean that if a president Trzaskowski may lay down veto against legislation passed by the majority Law and rettferdighetspartiet have in the parliament. For the other as means a any choice of Trzaskowski, that the tendency with a dominant Law and rettferdighetsparti may be about to turn.

It will fall be good for both Poland and the EUROPEAN union. Regjeringspartiets propagandistic campaigns and incitement of violence against homosexuals and trans-persons have previously won the election for the ruling party, and Questions used in this election campaign when he said that the rights for queer people is the expression of an ideology that is worse than communism. In the strictly catholic Poland is perhaps a sign of the times that the homosexual vilification still not bar the way up in 1. valgomgang. Perhaps the first strofen in Poland's national anthem still true: "Yet have not Poland gone under".

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