Voters faces momentous choice in tight runoff

WARSAW, POLAND » Voters in Poland today will decide a tight runoff election between populist incumbent President Andrzej Duda and his liberal proEuropean Union challenger, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.

Recent opinion polls show a race so close that it could hinge on a narrow margin of voters, which added urgency to the final days of campaigning in the central EU nation of 38 million people.

If Duda is reelected, he and the right-wing Law and Justice party that backs him will maintain a hold on almost all key instruments of power in the country, possibly until the next parliamentary election, which is scheduled for 2023.