The two candidates who compete on Sunday in the second round of the Polish presidential election can not display more opposite profiles. Neck and neck in the polls, the outgoing Andrzej Duda, supported by the ruling nationalist conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), and his pro-European liberal rival Rafal Trzaskowski, embody two contrasting visions of Poland. In the midst of the Covid crisis, economic issues hardly figured in the campaign, although the pandemic had ended thirty years of uninterrupted growth.
With just over 36,000 confirmed cases and 1,500 deaths, the country of 38 million inhabitants has managed to control the epidemic. Strict containment was quickly put in place, while the government of Mateusz Morawiecki drew up a robust economic support plan. The Prime Minister hopes for a rapid “V” recovery - a hypothesis that remains to be confirmed. Encouraging sign, domestic consumption recovered in May
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