European Union nation.The election has been dominated by issues of culture in which the government, state media and the influential Catholic Church all mobilised in support of Mr Duda, who is backed by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party.He seized on gay rights as a key theme, denouncing the LGBT rights movement as an ‘ideology’ worse than communism.He campaigned on traditional values and social spending, turning further to the right in search of votes as the race became tighter.He cast opponent Mr Trzaskowski as someone who would sell out Polish families to Jewish interests, tapping into old anti-Semitic tropes in a country that was home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before it was decimated by Germany in the.