2020 Polish presidential election

2020 Polish presidential election
Turnout	64.51% (first round) 15.55pp ; 68.18% (second round) 12.84pp
President before election; Andrzej Duda; Independent	Elected President ; Andrzej Duda; Independent

Presidential elections were held in Poland on 28 June 2020. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 12 July, in which incumbent president Andrzej Duda, running with the support of Law and Justice,^[1] faced off against Civic Platform vice-chairman and Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. In the second round Duda was re-elected for a second term with 51% of the vote, becoming the first incumbent to win re-election since Aleksander Kwaśniewski in 2000.

The first round of voting was due to be held on 10 May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. On 6 May 2020 the Agreement party, which was in a governing alliance with the leading Law and Justice (PiS) party and was opposed to pursuing the original election date, reached an arrangement to set new dates for the election. The following day, the PKW declared that the election would not be able to take place on 10 May 2020. On 3 June 2020, the Marshal of the Sejm, Elżbieta Witek, ordered the first round of the election to be held on 28 June 2020 and scheduled the second round on 12 July 2020.^[2]^[3]

According to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the public broadcaster TVP "failed in its legal duty to provide balanced and impartial coverage" and "acted as a campaign vehicle for the incumbent".^[4]

Duda's victory marked the sixth national election in a row where the right-wing PiS party defeated the opposition centrist and center-left forces.^[5]

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^ Strybel, Robert (10 June 2020). "Poland to elect next president on June 28". ampoleagle.com.
^ "Wybory prezydenckie odbędą się 28 czerwca - podała marszałek Sejmu". msn.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ "Marszałek Sejmu Elżbieta Witek podała termin wyborów prezydenckich". TVN24.pl. 2 June 2020. Marszałek Sejmu Elżbieta Witek poinformowała w środę, że wybory prezydenckie w 2020 roku odbędą się 28 czerwca.
^ Cite error: The named reference ODIHR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Anna Noryskiewicz (14 July 2020). "A bitterly divided Poland narrowly reelects right-wing President Andrzej Duda".

[2] Strybel, Robert (10 June 2020). "Poland to elect next president on June 28". ampoleagle.com.

[3] "Wybory prezydenckie odbędą się 28 czerwca - podała marszałek Sejmu". msn.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.

[TVN24_elections_date-4] "Marszałek Sejmu Elżbieta Witek podała termin wyborów prezydenckich". TVN24.pl. 2 June 2020. Marszałek Sejmu Elżbieta Witek poinformowała w środę, że wybory prezydenckie w 2020 roku odbędą się 28 czerwca.

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[6] Anna Noryskiewicz (14 July 2020). "A bitterly divided Poland narrowly reelects right-wing President Andrzej Duda".

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