http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200506-013316-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/plague-president/ Plague President Matczak, Marcin eng 2020-05-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Andrzej Duda Coronavirus Presidential Elections Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Between the 16th and 19th centuries, city councils appointed plague doctors to assist those suffering from the Black Death. Now, in the 21st century, we are about to appoint a plague president in Poland. The governing Law and Justice (PiS) party is refusing to postpone the presidential election, scheduled for May 10, even though the COVID-19 pandemic is rampant. This is both detrimental to public health and unconstitutional.