In Warsaw's local election, Europe's identity crisis plays out


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  • Friday, 28 Sep 2018

Combo of pictures showing main candidates for mayor of Warsaw in upcoming local election, Rafal Trzaskowski (L), Civic Coalition (Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) and Modern (Nowoczesna) coalition) and Patryk Jaki, United Right (Law and Justice (PiS) and Solidarna Prawica and Polska Razem) in Warsaw. Picture taken accordingly on September 18 and September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - For would-be Warsaw mayor Patryk Jaki, allowing Muslims into Poland poses a threat akin to the Nazi invasion of 1939. His opponent, Rafal Trzaskowski, agrees the country faces an existential threat, but says it comes from Jaki and his allies.

The two men epitomise the divisions that have riven Poland since the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, in which Jaki serves as deputy justice minister, took power in 2015.

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