Opposition candidates for Poland’s coming presidential election are squabbling over how to stop the ballot because of the pandemic
The party insists the vote can go ahead despite a lockdown in place until April 11. Health experts are worried that holding a vote would lead to a spike in coronavirus cases, as happened when France went ahead with municipal elections on March 15.
Poland, which took earlier measures to isolate people than many other countries, appears to be doing better than many of its EU peers, but the crisis is likely to worsen in the next weeks.; that number is almost certainly an undercount because Poland isn't doing as much testing as many other EU countries.Over the weekend, the government raced through legislation aimed at saving businesses and employees from the economic catastrophe unleashed by the pandemic and the lockdown.
The measure goes to the opposition-controlled upper house senate on Monday, which is mulling stripping out the voting amendments. But any fight over electoral rules risks delaying the rescue measures — a dangerous position for the opposition at a time when the economy is in free-fall. the government refrained from announcing a state of emergency. That step would give the government more legal authority to act, but doing so would delay any election until 60 days after the emergency is lifted.
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