Warsaw
On to Round 2: Polish president Andrzej Duda failed to secure a clear majority in the country’s presidential election this week, forcing him into a runoff vote with Warsaw’s liberal mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, on July 12. Turnout was high, at nearly 63 percent, despite the pandemic. Duda, who was endorsed by President Trump last week and is allied with the ruling nationalist party Law and Justice, took 44 percent of the votes in a field of 11 candidates. Trzaskowski, standing for the centrist Civic Platform, took 30 percent. The run-off is expected to be close as Trzaskowski tries to consolidate the various opposition parties behind him. He called on voters to oppose “several more years of a monopoly on power which is not honest and cannot be held to account.”