Divided Poles cast their votes in a tight presidential election

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Voters in Poland head to the polls for the second round of a tight presidential election, with major stakes for the country's role in the EU and its stance on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. Rafal Trzaskowski, 53, the pro-EU mayor of Warsaw and ally of the centrist government, is up against Karol Nawrocki, 42, a nationalist historian backed by the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) of outgoing President Andrzej Duda.

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00:19It's a great person who knows the language, is intelligent, and is great.

00:25I would like to be the people who were better,

00:28they would have a better place,

00:30they would have a better place,

00:31I would like to have two daughters,

00:33and I would like to have their own place,

00:36so they would have a better place.

00:49I would like to say,

00:50I'm the only candidate for the first time,

00:54who promised, not as Trzaskowski promised, but didn't get a word for it.

01:00They had to say where they were, and so on.

01:04I think that Nawrocki will be our best president.

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