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5 days ago |
yahoo.com | Magdalena Paciorek
Polish abortion rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska fought back tears as she recounted learning that the nationalist candidate had won Sunday's presidential election in Poland, which has a near-total abortion ban. Karol Nawrocki, backed by the right-wing opposition, said during the campaign he would not sign into law bills to relax anti-abortion rules or introduce civil unions for LGBTQ people.
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6 days ago |
barrons.com | Magdalena Paciorek
At the election night rally of Polish presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski in Warsaw, euphoria mixed with anxiety on Sunday. The pro-EU mayor of the Polish capital told a jubilant crowd he "won... by a whisker," after an initial exit poll gave him 50.3 percent of votes against nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki, on 49.7 percent. But a later projection based on partial results from polling stations reversed the prediction, putting Nawrocki at 50.7 percent against Trzaskowski's 49.3 percent.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Magdalena Paciorek
Centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, running neck-and-neck with his nationalist rival ahead of Poland's presidential runoff, is an avowed Europhile pledging to relax abortion laws and protect LGBTQ rights. Trzaskowski narrowly won the first round of voting on May 18, polling 31 percent against 30 percent for Karol Nawrocki, a historian backed by the conservative opposition.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Magdalena Paciorek
Poland votes on Sunday in a hotly contested presidential runoff that will pit the pro-EU Warsaw mayor against a nationalist historian in a tight race that could extend the political deadlock in the NATO member nation. The two candidates -- Rafal Trzaskowski, backed by the ruling centrists, and Karol Nawrocki, a political novice supported by the opposition Law and Justice party -- are running neck-and-neck in opinion polls.
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3 weeks ago |
wargny.com | Magdalena Paciorek
Le favori de la course à la présidence polonaise, le maire de Varsovie Rafal Trzaskowski, est un europhile déclaré, promettant de libéraliser les lois sur l'avortement et de protéger les droits des LGBTQ. Ancien vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères, le quinquagénaire est fils d'un pionnier du jazz en Pologne et l'arrière-petit-fils du fondateur des premières écoles secondaires pour filles dans ce pays.
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