Poland may need to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election unless lawmakers allow a presidential vote, which the government wants to hold by postal ballot during the coronavirus crisis, the prime minister's chief of staff said on Wednesday.
WARSAW - Poland may need to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election unless lawmakers allow a presidential vote, which the government wants to hold by postal ballot during the coronavirus crisis, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Wednesday.
Polls show incumbent Andrzej Duda of the ruling Law and Justice party on course to win the presidential election, which was scheduled for May 10. But politicians have been bitterly divided over whether it is possible to stage the election during a pandemic that has put the country on lockdown. The upper house of parliament voted on Tuesday to reject a postal ballot. Poland’s lower house, the Sejm, is expected to vote again on Wednesday or Thursday on the issue.
“We hope that there will be enough lawmakers who...will adopt the draft bill. However, one also has to consider options in which the bill is not backed and then we will have to deal with a very serious political crisis,” the prime minister’s chief of staff, Michal Dworczyk, said on public radio.
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