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Declaring a state of emergency is not even an option on the table for Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) chairman Jarosław Kaczyński - as it would render the 10 May election impossible (Photo: Piotr Drabik)

Poland's sham presidential election in a pandemic

Some 25 countries have decided to postpone their upcoming elections, with the last few - mostly regional or in tiny states - being held in early March.

Even Vladimir Putin postponed his constitutional referendum.

The only nation-wide election organised already during the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic was held on March 15 in France, with 600 doctors now requesting prime minister Edouard Philippe be put on trial for failing to prevent an epidemic.

Following the vote, numerous...

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Martin Mycielski is a former Brussels correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza, and now public affairs director and board member at the Open Dialogue Foundation, a Brussels-based NGO defending human rights and the rule of law.

Declaring a state of emergency is not even an option on the table for Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) chairman Jarosław Kaczyński - as it would render the 10 May election impossible (Photo: Piotr Drabik)

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Martin Mycielski is a former Brussels correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza, and now public affairs director and board member at the Open Dialogue Foundation, a Brussels-based NGO defending human rights and the rule of law.

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