"Trzaskowski told his supporters that it was good news the majority opposed Duda.“I want to say clearly to all these citizens - I will be your candidate. “After these five years many more people voted for me.”According to the projection by the Ipsos polling firm, Duda won 41.8% and Trzaskowski 30.4% in Sunday’s vote. He took a position against same-sex marriage and adoption and denounced the That kind of rhetoric — along with the judicial overhaul and the party's harnessing of On the campaign trail, Trzaskowski promised to keep the ruling party's popular social welfare spending programs while vowing to restore constitutional norms and Poland's relationship with the EU.A resident, wearing protective gloves, casts a vote during presidential election in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 28, 2020. The pro-EU Trzaskowski has vowed to block any new laws that violate constitutional norms.In a speech to cheering supporters late Sunday in the town of Lowicz, west of Warsaw, Duda noted that his result was better than in the first round five years ago.“I have this result after five years of being in politics, of being criticized in many ways, attacked, of taking difficult decisions," Duda said. "After these five years many more people voted for me. All rights reserved.
©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. President: The signing of the military agreement with the USA marks yet another chapter of our cooperation. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.Poland's state electoral commission has said it would release the final official results by Wednesday evening.The candidate with the third most votes according to the exit poll was Szymon Holownia, a TV personality and journalist who had once studied to be a priest. I will be the candidate of change," he said.A left-wing politician who was Poland's first openly gay presidential candidate, Robert Biedron, was projected to win 2.9 percent, while an agrarian candidate, Wladyslaw Kosiak-Kamysz had 2.6 percent in the exit poll. Poland's presidential vote headed for runoff, exit poll shows President Andrzej Duda failed to hit the 50 percent of votes needed to win in the first round WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s conservative president, Andrzej Duda, was the frontrunner in Sunday's election, but fell short of the 50% of votes needed to win in the first round, according to the projection of an exit poll.The results, if confirmed, pave the way for what is building into a very tight race in July 12 runoff that will most likely pit the populist incumbent against the centrist Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, who was in second place.Whether Duda ultimately wins a second five-year term in two weeks’ time will determine whether the ruling nationalist party that backs him, Law and Justice, keeps its near-monopoly on political power in Poland.The party has been in conflict with the European Union over laws that have given it control over top courts and key judicial bodies, something the 27-nation bloc has denounced as an erosion of democratic European values.Since the Polish president has the power to veto laws, Duda winning a second term is crucial to the party as it seeks to continue to reshape the nation’s laws in line with its conservative worldview. He was helped by adulatory coverage in state media and the inability of other candidates to campaign.But as restrictions eased, Trzaskowski replace an earlier candidate fielded by his Civic Platform party who had dismal poll numbers, adding a new dynamic and suspense into the race.Poland hasn't been as badly hit by the pandemic as many countries in Western Europe, and most people voted in person, wearing masks and observing other hygiene rules. There was also a mail-in voting option, and thousands of voters in some southwestern regions with higher virus infection numbers were required to vote by mail.As of Sunday, Poland had nearly 34,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among its 38 million people, with over 1,400 deaths.Duda's campaign focused on defending traditional values in the mostly Catholic nation while promising to keep raising living standards to Western European levels. or redistributed.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.Poland’s state electoral commission has said it would release the final official results by Wednesday evening.The candidate with the third most votes according to the exit poll was Szymon Holownia, a TV personality and journalist who had once studied to be a priest.