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Duda is running for a second term as Polish president while Warsaw mayor Trzaskowski has seen his stock rise in recent months.

Andrzej Duda, Poland's incumbent president, is expected to win the first round of voting on Sunday. But he is set to face a much tougher run-off, say experts.

The Polish President claimed the LGBT 'ideology' is more harmful than communism during a campaign rally on Saturday, as he seeks re-election in the predominantly Catholic country.

Brussels has long voiced concerns over the threats to judicial independence in Poland but the European Council has not taken any formal action to suspend the country's voting rights.

Smart Regions explores how a specially adapted mobile app is helping the most vulnerable members of a Polish community receive vital support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With only four days to go, Poland's presidential election has been cancelled. The opposition had voiced fears about its legitimacy during the currrent pandemic and whether sufficient infrastructure for postal voting could be put in place in time.

Poland's government has moved ahead with plans to hold the presidential election on May 10 via a new mail-in system. Human Rights Watch says the moved would not deliver "free, and fair" elections.

African Swine Fever, ASF, is a disease transmitted from wild boar to farmed pigs. There's no risk to us, ASF can't infect humans, but it does cause huge economic problems and Poland is currently on the front line. Find out in Unreported Europe what is being done to stop the spread of the disease.

Amnesty International say that laws on abortion and sex education "must not be rushed through under cover of COVID-19".

There are nearly two million migrant workers in Poland. Most have lost jobs during the pandemic and some are frantically trying to find a way home.

Polish culture "has suffered a great and irreparable loss", the country's culture minister said on Sunday.

It is known that Poland will not abandon coal completely. It is also known that renewable energy is not able to meet the needs of the Polish economy. So the Polish energy strategy is to provide for the construction of a civil energy nuclear sector.

The innovation project 'Insension' is being developed to give people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) a new way of communicating.

"[The EU] has no right to interfere with the justice system," one argued.

The wreath-laying ceremony with the participation of former prisoners and Polish president Andrzej Duda inaugurated the commemoration of the Auschwitz Nazi Death camp's liberation by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.