Presidential election validity protests across Poland
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“I will tell the president [Andrzej Duda] this in the face: you became the president as a result of an unfair election game. Your camp did everything to twist these elections,” Borys Budka, the head of the largest opposition Civic Platform (PO) party has said in an interview for private Polish broadcaster TVN24. He has announced a motion to the Supreme Court to annul the elections.
The first round of the presidential election was scheduled to be held on May 10 but after being bungled up by the governing right-wing nationalist and populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, they took place on June 28, with the runoff on July 12. Duda is a loyal ally of PiS.
Until July 17 afternoon, the Supreme Court received several times more election protests than during previous elections, the press team of the court informed. “Over 2,000 protests” are estimated to have been received by the top court.
Meanwhile, Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw mayor, said: “I am undertaking a civic movement because parties alone are not enough.” He announced to a crowd of hundreds on July 17 in Gdynia, northern Poland, that at the end of July he wants to talk to interested parties about the details of the new movement. “Enough lies and manipulation,” he added, thanking for support in the presidential election. Trzaskowski lost narrowly to Duda in the second round of the presidential election.
