Gay rights is emerging as a key campaign theme in the presidential election as the race grows close between Duda, backed by the nationalist conservative ruling party, and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who has called for tolerance for gays and lesbians.
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020 file photo, Poland's President Andrzej Duda campaigns for his re-election in Warsaw, Poland. Poland's parliament speaker says the postponed presidential election will take place June 28. The election was originally planned for May 10 but the coronavirus pandemic forced the conservative government to put it off.
Duda, who is 48, told his supporters that his parents' generation did not struggle to cast off communism only to now accept “an ideology” that he thinks"is even more destructive to the human being." Earlier in the week, Duda signed a declaration drafted for the stated purpose of helping families that included language on “protecting children from LGBT ideology” with a ban on “propagating LGBT ideology in public institutions."
Some analysts also suspect that Duda and the governing Law and Justice party are making a bid for far-right voters who will mostly support the candidate of a smaller party, Confederation, in the election's first round but whose votes will be up for grabs in a runoff.
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