Sunday, 12 July 2020

The run-off

The fortnight behind us was the period when the two candidates were attempting to attract electorate of their rival who had not made it to the second round and to convince those who dither or usually do not participate in the elections.

Mr Duda and Mr Trzaskowski were going neck in neck in opinion polls, with the former being indicated as odds-on favourite more likely. Despite the fierce rivalry, we went without truly dirty tricks, although henchmen of the incumbent president tried to build a story of the other candidate being an enemy of decent Poles.

This part of campaign should have been clinched by the number of scale of mistakes made by candidates. In fact, stalwart voters of both candidates could not have been dissuaded from voting for them, no matter what happened (the case of pardoning an ex-paedophile may serve as the best example).

The key to the victory was the mobilisation and one would not dare to estimate which candidate would benefit from higher turnout.

The exit-poll results point at slightly higher percentage of votes cast for the current president. The official results will probably be known on Tuesday morning. Hope dies the last, but has not died yet. Keep the faith.

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