Poland postpones presidential election in extremis

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While the confinement sits in front of their screen billions of viewers, the Poles watch their newspapers and watch, day after day, a bad soap opera that has been going on for two months. It has even just been renewed for a new season. The presidential campaign should have accelerated in early March. But the epidemic stopped everything. Except for the wish of the PiS, the ruling party, Law and Justice, to maintain the election, and preferably on May 10.

This was without counting a new twist that occurred on Wednesday evening. However, multiple scenarios had been envisaged: an election in late May, this summer, in the fall or even next year, as desired by the main opposition party. But no one predicted that less than four days before the election, his fate would be decided in an office, between two deputies. On the one hand, Jaroslaw Gowin, partner of the ultra-conservative ruling coalition. Opposed May 10 election, he left government

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