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Our daring correspondent went out in Cardiff, a city known as one of Britain's most hard

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These days, elections often seem almost existential.

In the case of Poland's presidential race, a knife-edge vote was a choice between two quite distinct futures.

Exit polls appeared to point to a liberal one, showing that the mayor of Warsaw, Raffaude Trakowski was in the lead.

Though the polls showed the race was extremely close,

Trachovsky claimed victory.

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