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The opposition Civic Platform, whose candidate Rafal Trzaskowski lost the second round of the July 12 presidential election by a small margin, said it had filed a complaint with the Supreme Court over the violations.
Among other things, the complaint accuses the public broadcaster TVP of bias.
“We have asked that the elections be declared invalid,” PO leader Borys Budka told reporters.
“These elections were not equal or universal. They were dishonest,” he said, adding that “the entire state apparatus has broken the law” in support of Duda.
During the second round of Sunday’s Polish presidential election, A. Duda won with 51.21 percent. and his rival, the Mayor of Warsaw, Trzaskowski, received 48.79 percent of the vote. votes.
The opposition filed a complaint against 2,000. People-reported irregularities, such as voter registration problems, late ballots, and problems voting abroad.
Reuters / Scanpix photo / Malgorzata Gersdorf
“Anyone can complain”
Left-wing legislator Barbara Nowacka of the Civic Coalition, which filed the complaint, said the vote was “unfair.”
“One of the reasons I am presenting this election today is so that those in power know that citizens are watching them.” “If we launched it today, then they would tighten the nuts even more in the next election,” he said.
Elzbieta Witek, a speaker of the Seimas lower house and a member of the PiS, said that “anyone can appeal the elections.”
“Those complaints will be investigated, but I don’t think any complaints could affect the outcome of the vote,” he said.
According to the Polish constitution, the Supreme Court will have to decide before August 3 whether the elections are valid.
Observers from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Monday that the Polish presidential elections were overshadowed by partial coverage on public television.
“There has been homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic rhetoric in the current president’s campaign and in the coverage of the public broadcaster,” the ODIHR said in a statement.
During his campaign, Duda condemned the LGBT rights movement as an “ideology” rather than communism, promised to prevent gay couples from marrying or adopting children, and criticized Jewish claims for compensation for assets confiscated or abandoned during the Holocaust. Duda’s election campaign also claimed that Trzaskowski would “betray” Polish families to Jewish interests.
Several commentators said that TVP coverage was extremely biased in Duda’s favor, and that both candidates declined to participate in the debate on the same television, which had not happened before in the country’s post-communist history.
“Political polarization and the lack of impartiality on social networks have affected [siekiui turėti] well-organized elections, “said Thomas Boserup, head of the ODIHR’s Special Election Assessment Mission.
“After a campaign that lacked dialogue, it is particularly important to emphasize that democracies are based on respect for diversity and the rights of everyone, not just the majority,” he added.
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