Poland presidential election 2025: rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins, official results show – live
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Nawrocki’s victory over Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is a blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU Polish government

Nawrocki, aka the “nationalist” candidate, just won the election in Poland with a very narrow margin.

Nawrocki is formally independent, but is aligned with the PiS party of current president Duda, who were responsible for undermining Polish democracy by among other things stacking the courts with illegitimate judges. As the president has the power to block all judidcal appointments, it does not look like Poland will have their democracy back for the next five years: Duda has simply blocked all judicial appointments rendering the Polish state a lame duck, and in all likelihood Nawrocki will keep up the same obstructionist strategy.

Then again, that’s what they voted for.

  • harcEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Polleming here, some context;

    • this guy a doctor of history, until recently head of IPN, state historical institute dealing with historical crimes of the Nazi and Soviet regimes + other genocides (pol-ukr)
    • in early 20 took over a flat from an old alcoholic who was then in prison (prob. “encouraged” by other prisoners)
    • signed a deal he will support the guy in exchange for the flat till the end of life, the guy is now in a state welfare facility, fully on state support
    • flat itself was siphoned of the housing system
    • used to work as bouncer in a gang bar
    • also a football casual who took part of one of the most famous 70v70 football casuals fight, along key gangsters
    • delivered sexworkers to a hotel where he worked as security
    • went to beg for support of a far right pro-russian candidate, got humiliated publicly, signed off vetoing Ukraine in NATO (key Polish starategic objective for security against openly threathened Russian invasion)
    • wins 50.89% to 49.11% against a bland liberal, president of Warsaw
    • we live in a society.