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lil  ·  1352 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 15, 2020

The election of Duda for five more years sounds horrible and dangerous. Very interesting how Duda had the support of older people. Duda's anti-gay campaign and fear-mongering appealed to them. Horrible.

    Mr. Trzaskowski (Duda's opponent) won Warsaw with 68 percent of the vote. He also won voters aged 40 to 59 by 10 points, those 30 to 39 by 11 points, and those 18 to 29 by nearly 30 points. Mr. Duda handily beat the Warsaw mayor with voters over 50 by nearly 20 points and those over 60 by 25 points. Mr. Duda supporters were also mostly in eastern and southern regions of the country, where the economy is still lagging.




Devac  ·  1352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Very interesting how Duda had the support of older people.

Older Poles are much more religious, conservative and, it has to be said, backwards. Learning from what happened with Trump, I'm not surprised in the slightest that a fearmongering populist won on the backs of people who'd rather fuck up everything for everyone than allign themselves with some citydwelling 'elite'.

lil  ·  1352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you trust that the election was fair, that votes were counted fairly, that thousands of names were not scrubbed from the election roles, that gerrymandering is minimal?

I heard that it is being contested.

Devac  ·  1352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is contested, though I tuned out after news' signal to noise ratio became too much. And, really, does my trust matter? If it wasn't fair, there's no way the inquiry would show anything since then it clearly wasn't an impartial system to begin with. It it was, it's a moot point.

Sorry for not being much help. Should you wish to, I could read up in a few days on it and answer yours (and anyone else's) questions more thoroughly.