The populist-right opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice party (PiS), has won Poland’s presidential election, defeating his pro-European rival Rafał Trzaskowski, in a nail-bitingly close contest.

Official results showed Nawrocki took 50.89% of votes in the runoff, with Trzaskowski on 49.11%.

Nawrocki’s victory is a major blow for the coalition government led by Donald Tusk and is expected to prolong the current political deadlock in the country as well as complicate the country’s position in Europe.

  • MiyamotoKnows@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Insanity. The people of Poland will be deeply regretful in time.

    Well at least the next Behemoth album’s lyrics are sure to be deep, angry and amazing. Nergal is going to be PISSED about this stupidity.

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    7 days ago

    Luckily president in Poland is mostly symbolic. The state head is Prime Minister like in most European countries.

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      Everything I’ve read is they can veto legislation, act on international affairs, etc. Absolutely not largely symbolic unless a Polish person would like to correct me.

      Especially a big deal considering the current coalition is very weak and can barely agree on legislation anyhow.

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        Yeah he can veto and has to appoint ambassadors. The previous president didn’t do that out of spite, so we were unable to recall people who should’ve been fired. They sent out people who aren’t ambassadors technically, but fulfill that role.

        So yeah, salty rightwingers doing everything to fuck Poland over out of spite. What’s new.

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    On the plus side, at least he’s just as rusophobic and willing to arm-up as the other candidates, right? Right?

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      Russophia is a propaganda term.

      A sober view of russian “culture” and history is not a phobia. It is reasonable to approach russians as they are (e.g. strong majority support for genocidal imperialism even with adjustments for preference falsification during polling) and not as one would like them to be.

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        Propaganda or not, I really hope poland does not soften their anti-russian attitude, else we’ll be proper fucked in eastern europe