2020-06-26 00:00:00, By Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Mary Stegmaier, Washington Post
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Here's what this means: It appears unlikely that any candidate will win over 50 percent of the vote on Sunday, which will trigger a second-round runoff election on July 12 between the top two vote-getters.
The campaign resumed, with a new candidateUltimately, just days before the May 10 election, a political rift in the government and the intervention of the opposition-controlled Senate forced PiS to postpone the election.
But the biggest surprise in this election year was the late entry of opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski into the race, which has brought LGBT rights to the fore in this predominantly Catholic country.
Current polls suggest that no candidate will secure the 50 percent needed to win the presidency in Sunday's first-round election.
The election takes place after five years of democratic backsliding under President Andrzej Duda and his nationalistic Law and Justice (PiS) party.
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