Poland in times of the election campaign: before the run-off election on 12 July, Poland’s president today announced to the media in effective manner that he wants to inscribe the ban of adoption of children by homosexual couples in the constitution. The saddest thing is that even his fiercest rival agrees with him on this issue.

Things are getting tight for the President, Andrzej Duda is currently fighting for his re-election. Although he was able to take the lead in the first round of voting with 8,412,183 votes (43.7 percent) – his opponent Rafał Trzaskowski received only 5,845,164 votes (30.34 percent). However, this also meant a loss of votes for Duda (we reported) – and since no candidate was able to gather more than 50 percent of the votes, a run-off vote will take place on 12 July.

In this hot phase Duda probably found it time to tighten up his favourite political topic once again. The candidate of the anti-queer governing party Law and Justice (PiS), which is largely responsible for the intensification of queer-hatred in the country, had already claimed at an election campaign event in the middle of the month that queer rights are more harmful than communism (we have reported). Last month he promised to ban queer- inclusive education in schools and assured that he would block any legislation on same-sex marriage. So now, rainbow families are being targeted – not that those existing in Poland had fared so well in the past.

At an election rally in southern Poland today, Duda announced that he would present a signed draft constitutional amendment on Monday that would ban same-sex couples from adopting children. According to the portal PolandIn he said that this should be done under the sign of “child protection”. The news will be a devastating blow for many homosexual couples in Poland who were considering starting a family – but it will not come as a big surprise.

“Children who are denied parental support need special protection. The ban must be introduced because it is the responsibility of the state to whom such a child is entrusted.”

Sadly, even his opponent agrees

Duda’s opponent in the run-off vote, Rafał Trzaskowski, immediately tried to announce his approval. The mayor of Warsaw, who is running for the Europe-friendly Civic Platform (PO), also made the issue of adoption prohibition his own.

Of course, he too was in favour of such a ban, said Trzaskowski. With the assurance that this was also the conviction of most other parties, he tried to soften the impact of Duda’s speech. He claimed that with this step Duda was only trying to divert attention from other election campaign issues and to increase voter favour.

So it doesn’t look as if someone in Poland’s election campaign is taking up the cudgels for the queer community – or whose situation will improve considerably after the election.

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