WARSAW, July 16 (Xinhua) — Poland’s main opposition group Civic Coalition and the campaign of losing candidate Rafal Trzaskowski filed complaints to the Supreme Court on Thursday about the results of the presidential election. The complaints contained hundreds of incidents that, according to the opposition, have given the winner, incumbent president Andrzej Duda, an unfair advantage. Duda won the run-off election Sunday by a slender margin, gaining 51.03 percent of the vote over Trzaskowski’s 48.97 percent.
The main complaints concerned what the opposition said unfair involvement of state institutions in the campaign. “These elections were not fair, because fair elections mean equal treatment of candidates,” said Barbara Nowacka, a Civic Coalition MP during a press conference. The Civic Coalition is made up of the main opposition party Civic Platform and several minor parties. The Supreme Court has 21 days to review all the protests and rule whether any of them undermines the validity of the election. Observing body of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has said the voting was organized professionally on the whole.
