Presidential election: Duda criticized for attacking LGBT+ people again
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Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president and a loyal ally of the country’s governing rightwing nationalist and populist Law and Justice (PiS) party has been criticized vehemently for attacking LGBT+ people again in, what political analysts call, a bid to woo far-right and ultra-Catholic and conservative voters.
In the second round of presidential election slated to be held on July 12, Duda faces off liberal candidate Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw mayor and MP of Poland’s largest opposition grouping Civic Coalition (KO).
On July 1, Duda said: “I do not agree and I will never allow aggressive sexualization of children. I will never allow children to be adopted by same-sex couples because this is experimenting with children. I will not allow experiments on children.” Before the first round of the presidential election, on a campaign trail, Duda lashed out at “LGBT ideology” which he compared to “neo-bolshevism.”
