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And so Slovakia has decisively rejected rhetoric and populism. The likely new PM has made it clear that he intends to anchor Slovakia firmly within the EU, and it's a huge win for liberals against populists.

Duda continues to face opposition at almost every campaign stop, and he must be praying for the coronavirus to go away at this point. The Polish stock market was decimated this week too, and both Kidawa-Błońska and WKK have had strong conventions.

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That issue won't go away, especially given the large fiscal transfers from Silesia to poorer parts of Poland.

Torq, WKK is getting a lot of praise for his performance today. I haven't seen it - is it justified?

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You're voting for Duda so that he can pack courts with PiS loyalists? That doesn't bode well for Konfederacja, given that Konfederacja are a risk to PiS. First Międlar will go down, the rest will follow.

Filled with news from Sputnik, no doubt. Such websites are of minimal influence in Poland, especially when compared to the major news portals. There's hundreds of these sites, and none of them enjoy any real popularity. Elections are won by hard work, not by people making fringe websites.

Still, it's such a pleasure to make the maximum donations allowable under Polish law to Platforma, knowing that PiS supporters will explode with rage when Duda loses.

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Latest mess: Gryzelda seemingly gave a speech at a PiS internal meeting this weekend and ranted about herself rather than Duda. She was subjected to a "Andrzej Duda" chant as a result, so this doesn't bode well for his campaign.

Meanwhile, TVP are now aggressively trying to collect TV licence money. The right wingers have also made it clear that they don't support Duda, so it's one bad thing after another for him.

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He needs 40% in the first round, and he's polling at 41-42%. Nowhere near enough, and Kidawa-Błońska is chipping away at him by correctly questioning Duda based on people's fears.

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It's interesting to see how Spike gets more and more worried as the bad news continues to come in. I mean, he's spent more time defending Duda than actually talking about Bosak.

How strange.

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It's certainly a very weak start to his campaign, and this campaign chief of his is being ridiculed constantly online.

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Latest polls carried out by ISPOS, who have the most accurate polls.

Duda 48% vs Kidawa-Błońska 46%
Duda 47% vs WKK 45%
Duda 47% vs Hołowina 45%
Duda 51% vs Biedroń 41%

It's clear that Duda doesn't have any considerable advantage. It might well be that this campaign will hinge not on him, but on PiS themselves.

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Another day, more stupidity from Duda. This time, he was ranting about a local power plant providing jobs for locals. The problem is that the power plant in question closed two years ago.

I suspect part of his success five years ago was that he wasn't under such scrutiny. Now, every word is being analysed, and opposition candidates are hammering him within hours for these stupid mistakes.

And remember, it's not only Kidawa-Błońska he has to worry about. He's got several other candidates that are also hammering him, and at least one of them is capable of making inroads into unhappy rural communities where religion isn't such an important factor.

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This is the critical thing. The more that these stories dominate, the harder it is to actually promote Duda. The logical thing - get rid of her and replace her with someone more acceptable - is unthinkable for PiS.


It's amazing how much you repeat the exact mantras repeated by PiS supporters online. The current tactics are working - Duda is falling in the polls, and he's going from one PR disaster to another. His latest stupid comments about inflation aren't helping those who see that he's travelling around in convoys while they're struggling with higher rents and food prices, especially younger voters.

Meanwhile, where's Bosak? It's almost like a fun meme at this point.

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And yet the AfD had to trick people in order to get them to stand for local elections:

welt.de/politik/article205672007/Bayern-Vaterstetten-AfD-soll-Senioren-Listenplaetze-untergejubelt-haben.html

What kind of dirty game is this?

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I doubt he's even read it.

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Nowhere to be found. Konfederacja are really just individuals with their own agendas, hence why Bosak is invisible as he simply doesn't have the support of others.

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In a two horse race.

If you can't get more than 12% of the vote against a left-leaning candidate when you're the only other candidate, it means you're a joke and the voters know it.

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He's not fearsome in the slightest. It always amazes me how nationalists think that a small amount of success makes them "fearsome", but then they cry because TVP ignores them.


She's making a fool out of herself already, it's quite amazing.

I don't remenber Szydło doing anything like this in 2015, and you really have to wonder why Kaczyński is putting these incompetent fools in charge over a tried and tested campaign chief.

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So you're saying that Bosak is less than a half-wit?

I mean, I agree.

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How many degrees did he fail?

He's uneducated, it's as simple as that.

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It's amazing how frustrated he must be.

People like that have achieved nothing, and it's clear that they strive for attention online because they're getting none in their real life.

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He doesn't even have higher education.

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It's quite normal in Europe for children to only be allowed to leave their country of residence if both parents agree.

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It's not normal, but it can be the case if the seller is using the proceeds to buy another property.

Don't accept it, as it's likely going to lead to problems.

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In the same way that you claimed he was educated, yet it turned out that he'd failed multiple degrees? He's an intellectual lightweight when compared to the other candidates.


Yet her campaign is landing blow after blow with no real effective counter from PiS.


Seems to be the most likely situation, but then again, he needs that money for his campaign.

Those Kantar polls don't look good for him - 40% in the first round won't be enough. It also occurred to me that both Hołowina and Kosianiak-Kamysz will hurt him in any debate, and Bosak's only chance of avoiding certain humiliation will be a strong debate performance where he'll need to attack Duda.

In all of this, you have to wonder what Banaś will do.

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So, if the interest of Poland is to lock you and your family up "in the national interest", you'll support that action?

Good to know.

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Not really. This is all about political orders over all, as witnessed by the fact that most places passing these resolutions are very poor by Polish standards. I'd be quite irritated if my local representatives were wasting time and money on nonsense like this.

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This is exactly my point: Duda only had to beat Komorowski. Now he has to deal with Kidawa-Błońska hugging everyone, Kosiniak-Kamysz motivating the traditional PSL electorate and Biedroń/Bosak being heavily supported by young people.

If Kosiniak-Kamysz wins among the rural middle classes, Duda is in serious trouble.

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I cannot make sense of what Duda is actually doing in this campaign. Now he's apparently been saying "yes, prices are going up, but it's only temporary".

Then there's the strange words of his chief of staff, which are being interpreted as being an attack on freedom of speech.


If he can get through to farmers, then things will be very interesting...

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It's typical for Poland (and Poles) - a chronic inability to see the consequences of their actions.

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More on the way. It's our duty to inform them, after all ;)

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Yet again, you're repeating what PiS are trying to claim. What's actually happening now is a repeat of what PiS did to Komorowski, and by charging a protester for "insulting" Duda, it makes him look weak and insecure. It doesn't help that Duda is driving around the country in large convoys, as it makes him look even more out of touch.

No-one will believe that Duda is a victim, not least because he's not a sympathetic figure. If he was an elder statesman who was dignified - yes. But he's not - he's a partisan President who has done plenty to divide people.


It really depends. There's now evidence that Duda is unwelcome in opposition heartlands, and these are places where Duda needs votes. If he now starts avoiding places because PiS are afraid of a hostile reaction, or if he knows that he's not able to deal with them, it's already a massive win for the opposition.

I think the trick now is to deploy this weapon sparingly, but randomly. A few more arrests for "insulting the President" won't hurt as well.

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Duda got another hostile reception today in Łowicz, and a 65 year old man has been charged with "insulting the President" after he held up a banner that called Duda a fool.

But what matters more is what happened next: He turned up in Turek, but 50 minutes late. He also turned up somewhere that PiS has between 50-60% support, which means that he's repeating the Komorowski mistake of turning up in places where he's already well supported.

That's not all. Yet another film is now circulating on social media, showing how Duda is travelling around - with a cavalcade of cars, including an ambulance, and that other traffic is forced to stop. They also crossed a railway crossing without stopping.

Kidawa-Błońska is loudly demanding that Duda vetoes the TVP bill, and it seems like signing the bill now will be his death warrant.