2020 Polish presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 28 June 2020. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 12 July, in which incumbent president Andrzej Duda, running with the support of Law and Justice, faced off against Civic Platform vice-chairman and Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. In the second round Duda was re-elected for a second term with 51% of the vote, becoming the first incumbent to win re-election since Aleksander Kwaśniewski in 2000.
Image: Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Andrzej Duda
Image: Rafał Trzaskowski 22 May 2020
Ballot paper (second round)
Television personality Szymon Hołownia (Independent)
Andrzej Sebastian Duda is a lawyer and politician who has served as President of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before he became President, Andrzej served as a member of the Polish Lower House
(Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the European Parliament from 2014 to 2015.
Official portrait, 2019
President Lech Kaczyński appointing Duda as undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of the President, 16 January 2008
Andrzej Duda taking the oath of office, 6 August 2015
Duda and Xi Jinping signed a declaration on strategic partnership