According to the results of exit polls from polling stations during the second round of presidential elections the incumbent head of state Andrzej Duda received 50.4 percent of the votes and incumbent mayor of Warsaw, rafał Trzaskowski is 49.6%. The turnout was 68.9%, that is, even more than in the first round on June 28, when the record was broken in 1989.
Despite the fact that the election was to be held on may 10, but because of the coronavirus was postponed to a later date, both candidates managed to mobilize the electorate, rather tired of the endless election campaign. In the case of Duda poles voted for the preservation of the status quo, but a high percentage of trust Trzaskowski is largely a result of dissatisfaction with the policies of the ruling party.
the powers of the President in Poland is very limited. For example, he has the right to veto Parliament’s decisions, but its resistance can be by-passed, gaining a two-thirds majority. He appoints ambassadors to foreign countries, but they report to the government formed by the ruling party. In the case where the President comes from the party, its existence is almost invisible. He, as was the case with Andrzej Duda, nominated by the party “law and Justice” silently signed all the laws adopted by the Seimas, the majority of which in 2015 the same party. Another thing, if the President represents the opposition. Such was the situation when in 2007, parliamentary elections were won by the opposition Civic platform, and the President was the founder of the “Peace” Lech Kaczynski.
within a few years the whole world watched with interest how the administration of the Polish President is trying to duplicate the functions of the government, and the President and the Prime Minister can not share the seat of the representative of Poland at the European Council. This frightened the poles Duda: that comes from the “Civic platform” Rafal Trzaskowski, as President, will block all initiatives of the government “Piece.” It is promised to the poles Trzaskowski: what, sitting in the presidential chair, he would not meekly sign everything that to it will bring out of Parliament.
So these elections were, among other things, the terms of the relationship to policies of the ruling party, and almost half of the poles showed a peace sign red card.
