FILE PHOTO: Civic Platform leader Grzegorz Schetyna speaks next to Civic Coalition's candidate for prime minister, Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw, Poland, October 13, 2019. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's main opposition group, the centre-right Civic Platform (PO), picked a party veteran known for building consensus on Saturday as its contender to unseat nationalist ally Andrzej Duda in a presidential election next year.
A former parliament speaker, Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, 62, is trailing Duda, 47, in opinion polls by a double-digit margin, but her party hopes she will be able to mobilise undecided voters at a time of deepening political polarisation in Poland.
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