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		</div><p>Poland’s conservative president, Andrzej Duda, is on course for a second term following the country’s weekend election.</p>
<p>The state electoral commission said on Monday that Mr Duda has won 51.21% of the ballot with almost all votes counted.</p>
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<p>The nearly complete results, based on a count of 99.97% of votes counted, shows liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski defeated with 48.79% of the vote.</p>
<figure id="attachment_158757" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158757" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/97F6498C-86D2-41F0-9EE5-8C9635F2E445.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-158757" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-158757" class="wp-caption-text">Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski appears to have been defeated by incumbent president Andrzej Duda</figcaption></figure>
<p>The final results could vary slightly.</p>
<p>If the result is borne out, it would be one of closest elections in Poland’s history, reflecting the deep divisions in the European Union nation.</p>
<p>Sunday’s vote was originally planned for May but was delayed amid bitter political wrangling.</p>
<p>It follows a bitter campaign dominated by issues of culture in which the government, state media and the influential Catholic church all mobilised in support of Mr Duda, a social conservative.</p>
<p>Mr Duda, who is backed by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party, campaigned on traditional values and social spending in the mostly Catholic nation as he sought a second five-year term.</p>
<p>As the race became tighter in recent weeks, he turned further to the right in search of votes.</p>
<p>He seized on gay rights as a key theme, denouncing the LGBT rights movement as an “ideology” worse than communism.</p>
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<p>Mr Duda’s campaign also cast Mr Trzaskowski as someone who would sell out Polish families to Jewish interests, tapping into old anti-Semitic tropes in a country that was home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before it was decimated by Germany in the Holocaust.</p>
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