Sixty-year-old Marzenna Latawiec is determined to brave the risk of coronavirus and vote in Poland's presidential election on Sunday, but it's not the pandemic or the country's first economic recession in three decades that is firing her up.
WARSAW - Sixty-year-old Marzenna Latawiec is determined to brave the risk of coronavirus and vote in Poland’s presidential election on Sunday, but it’s not the pandemic or the country’s first economic recession in three decades that is firing her up.
“I don’t care whether [homophobic speech] is cynicism or an expression of regular, pure hatred,” Latawiec told Reuters. “I cannot accept that any adult, mature person can speak like this and not face consequences for what the words stir up.” Latawiec, an IT specialist who plans to vote for Trzaskowski, believes that in their campaigning, Duda and the nationalist government he supports are “de facto acquiescing to hate crimes”.
Duda’s campaign aides say accusations such as that by Latawiec are false and ignore his calls for respect for all citizens. Duda argues he is simply defending Poland’s moral “backbone” that is rooted in European Christian civilisation. Trzaskowski, however, has sidestepped questions in the campaign over whether he would support allowing gay marriage, underscoring the sensitivity of the issue in Poland.
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