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“It’s neck and neck,” headlines Gazeta Wyborcza, with the two rivals in the second round of Poland’s presidential elections having more or less equal chances of winning. The liberal daily sums up the choice voters are facing on 4 July. A vote for Bronisław Komorowski of the ruling Civic Platform party is a vote for a “boring but stable and responsible” Poland. Jarosław Kaczyński of the Law and Justice party (PiS) represents a “centralised and omnipotent” state. “The country’s future is in its citizens’ hands today,” writes Gazeta. “As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”

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