Presidential election outcome a blow to Poland's government – DW – 06/02/2025
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Right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential runoff by a whisker. The result is a bitter blow for Donald Tusk's pro-European government.

Right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential runoff by a whisker. The result is a bitter blow for Donald Tusk’s pro-European government.

Poland’s State Election Commission announced on Monday morning that the right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki had received 50.89% of the vote in Sunday’s presidential runoff, putting him marginally ahead of his liberal-conservative, pro-European rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, on 49.11%.

Nawrocki will be inaugurated in August, succeeding President Andrzej Duda, who, after two terms in office, was no longer able to run for president.

Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian from Gdansk, was nominated by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. PiS presented Nawrocki as a non-partisan, independent “citizens’ candidate” although his campaign was paid for and organized by the party and his program aligned with that of PiS.

    • Stamau123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      Apparently this guy also hates Russia, is wanted there for helping to organize red army monument removals, so maybe that will be the one thing he won’t fuck up

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Nothing changed in Poland, the last president was a dirtbag too.

      Slovakia is what it is, but Fico can usually be reasoned with.

      Hungary is going to oust its government in less than a year.

      • mgnome@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I mean, compared to that new guy, Anjey Dupa is a saint.

        I’ve happened earlier upon what Lech Walesa wrote in Facebook (?) about results of these elections, and it’s just heartbreaking.