Lefties Never Accept Losing - Shape Of Things To Come?
Poland’s globalist opposition party has demanded a presidential election re-run after losing to patriotic incumbent Andrzej Duda.
Civic Platform (PO) on Thursday announced they had petitioned the Supreme Court to trigger an annulment and re-run of the election after losing to the Law and Justice (PiS) party incumbent 49 per cent to 51 per cent.
The liberal, establishment party’s spokesman told Reuters that the July 12th vote was unfair, alleging that the situation was “comparable to campaigning in Belarus and Russia”.
Government spokesman Piotr Muller dismissed the criticism, telling public radio that PO’s complaints were “examples of how difficult it is for [PO candidate] Rafal Trzaskowski’s staff to accept defeat”.
But self-styled election watchdog, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), alleged that Duda misused public resources, claiming he had used the Polish state media corporation TVP as a campaign tool.
ODIHR is the principal institution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which receives a large proportion of its funding from globalist governments such as Emmanuel Macron’s France and Angela Merkel’s Germany.
Both leaders have repeatedly hit out at the Polish government since PiS came to power, even threatening to place sanctions on the conservative country.
Polish state TV has come under fire from domestic figures such as Trzaskowski — who pledged during the election campaign to scrap TVP completely — as well as private and international media for being too supportive of the country’s right-wing government.
Last month, it was reported that the PO presidential election candidate was suing TVP for alleged false and defamatory claims against Trzaskowski in...