Nationalist Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election
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Nationalist Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential runoff election
The country’s electoral commission announced that Karol Nawrocki, who aligned with the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party, won 50.89 percent of the votes. It appears the latest electoral outcome will pose challenges to Poland’s pro-
The country’s electoral commission announced that Karol Nawrocki, who aligned with the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party, won 50.89 percent of the votes, edging 1.78 percentage points above centrist Civic Platform candidate Rafal Trzaskowski. Trzaskowski took 49.11 percent of the votes.
Most power in the Polish political system rests with the prime minister, but the president holds the power to veto legislation. It appears the latest electoral outcome will pose challenges to Poland’s pro-EU administration led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
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Karol Nawrocki, the sovereignist and pro-Russian candidate, narrowly wins against liberal rival Rafal Trzaskowski in the presidential second round. The result confirms the divide between urban areas, which support the liberals, and rural areas that vote for the nationalists. For Tusk, the loss is severe and risks compromising his reform agenda to leave behind the years of PiS rule. The president can veto laws passed in parliament, something that outgoing President Andrzej Duda, close to PiS, has done frequently since Tusk returned to power. Nawrocki’s victory is expected to push Poland towards a more nationalist path, with more focus on sovereignty and less on European integration. The election race highlighted the deep political divide in Poland, a strategic country on the eastern border of NATO and the European Union.
In Poland’s presidential election, Karol Nawrocki emerged victorious with 50.89% of the vote, narrowly defeating the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%, after an extremely close race that kept the country in tension.
The result was announced by the Polish news agency Pap, citing data from the National Election Commission after all polling stations were counted. The turnout was 71.63%.
Close runoff and political clash in Poland
The elections took place in a polarized political climate, where Nawrocki, a nationalist and Eurosceptic figure, represented the hard-line conservative line, while Trzaskowski advocated a pro-European and liberal vision.
A country divided between East and West
This election race highlighted the deep political divide in Poland, a strategic country on the eastern border of NATO and the European Union.
The result confirms the divide between urban areas, which support the liberals, and rural areas that vote for the nationalists.
What is expected now for Poland?
Nawrocki’s victory is expected to push Poland towards a more nationalist path, with more focus on sovereignty and less on European integration. Karol Nawrocki has received direct support from US President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which implies a more pronounced orientation towards conservative international policies.
Trzaskowski was a candidate of Tusk’s Civic Coalition.
For Tusk, the loss is severe and risks compromising his reform agenda to leave behind the years of PiS rule. The president can veto laws passed in parliament, something that outgoing President Andrzej Duda, close to PiS, has done frequently since Tusk returned to power.
“The process of repairing the rule of law in Poland has just become significantly more difficult,” explained Jakub Jaraczewski, an expert at the NGO Democracy Reporting International, on the Bluesky platform.
“I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda,” he added.
The goal of a return to an independent judiciary could be compromised.
Nawrocki will also try to reopen the doors of government to PiS.
Tusk’s coalition may not last long after his defeat in the presidential election.
So who is Karol Nawrocki?
Karol Nawrocki, a conservative-leaning historian, built an image of “tough” during the election campaign through videos at shooting ranges and boxing gyms.
While his liberal rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, emphasized ties with the European Union, Nawrocki emphasized relations with the US, meeting with Donald Trump at the White House and securing the US president’s support for his candidacy.
Nawrock’s past has been the subject of fierce public debate, following several negative media reports. Questions have been raised about how he obtained an apartment from a pensioner and an admission that he participated in organized fights.
“All my sporting activities have been based on the strength of my heart, my muscles, my fists,” said Nawrocki, who was an amateur boxer, during a debate where he faced reports of involvement in mass brawls organized by football hooligans.
“It was a fair race, regardless of the form,” he said, according to Reuters.
He presented the electoral process as a referendum on the government, which he described as a metropolitan elite disconnected from the problems of the people.
Analysts say Nawrocki is likely to follow in the footsteps of outgoing President Andrzej Duda, who used his veto power to block the pro-European government’s efforts to roll back previous judicial reforms, which the EU has criticized as a threat to the independence of Poland’s judiciary.
Polish nationalist Nawrocki wins presidency in setback for pro-EU government
Karol Nawrocki secured 50.89% of the vote, election commission data showed. He is likely to use his presidential veto to thwart Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s liberal policy agenda. The EU took the previous PiS government to court over its judical reforms, saying they undermined the rule of law and democratic standards. Both candidates had declared victory immediately after the publication of an exit poll late on Sunday that showed the result would be very close. It comes just two weeks after Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, had dealt a blow to hard-right and nationalist forces in central Europe by winning that country’s presidential contest. The vote was being watched closely in Ukraine as well as Russia, the U.S. and the EU, and the vote was a record for the second round of a presidential election, the electoral commission said, with 71.31% of votes cast. It was a victory for European conservatives inspired by U.N. President Donald Trump, the commission said.
Item 1 of 6 Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, reacts to the exit polls of the second round of the presidential election, in Warsaw, Poland, June 1, 2025. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Summary Nationalist Nawrocki wins presidential election
Result is major blow for pro-EU government
Central European conservatives congratulate Nawrocki
He is expected to block some government legislation
WARSAW, June 2 (Reuters) – Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government’s efforts to cement Warsaw’s pro-European orientation.
In a victory for European conservatives inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, Nawrocki secured 50.89% of the vote, election commission data showed, an outcome that presages more political gridlock as he is likely to use his presidential veto to thwart Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s liberal policy agenda.
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Tusk’s government has been seeking to reverse judicial reforms made by the previous nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government, but current President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, has blocked its efforts – a pattern Nawrocki is likely to continue.
Nawrocki’s rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal Warsaw mayor who was standing for Tusk’s ruling Civic Coalition (KO), got 49.11%, the data showed. Both candidates had declared victory immediately after the publication of an exit poll late on Sunday that showed the result would be very close.
Nawrocki, a conservative historian and amateur boxer who was backed by PiS, had presented the vote as a referendum on Tusk’s 18-month-old government.
“The referendum on the dismissal of the Tusk government has been won,” PiS lawmaker Jacek Sasin wrote on X.
Poland’s blue-chip stock index shed more than 2% in early trade on Monday as investors anticipated more political paralysis. The zloty currency also fell versus the euro.
Nawrocki, like his predecessor Duda, is expected to block any attempts by the Tusk government to liberalise abortion or reform the judiciary. The EU took the previous PiS government to court over its judical reforms, saying they undermined the rule of law and democratic standards.
EUROSCEPTIC
Sunday’s run-off vote in Poland came just two weeks after Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan , had dealt a blow to hard-right and nationalist forces in central Europe by winning that country’s presidential contest.
Congratulations poured in from other nationalist and eurosceptic politicians in the region. The defeated hard-right candidate in Romania’s election, George Simion, wrote on X “Poland WON”, while Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hailed a “fantastic victory”.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she was convinced the EU could continue its “very good cooperation” with Poland.
Nawrocki, 42, a newcomer to politics who previously ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour Poles over other nationalities, including refugees from neighbouring Ukraine.
He vowed to protect Poland’s sovereignty and railed against what he said was excessive interference in the country’s affairs from Brussels.
While Poland’s parliament holds most power, the president can veto legislation, and the vote was being watched closely in Ukraine as well as Russia, the United States and the EU.
Borys Budka, a KO Member of the European Parliament, said he believed PiS now sought to “overthrow the legal government”.
“This may be a big challenge for the government, which will be blocked when it comes to good initiatives,” he told state news channel TVP Info.
Nawrocki won despite his past dominating the last days of the presidential campaign – from questions over his acquisition of a flat from a pensioner to an admission that he took part in orchestrated brawls.
Turnout was 71.31%, the electoral commission said, a record for the second round of a presidential election.
Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Pawel Florkiewicz, writing by Alan Charlish; Editing by Kate Mayberry and Gareth Jones
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PiS-backed Nawrocki wins narrowly, imperilling Tusk’s reforms and EU ties
Final exit poll gave Karol Nawrocki 50.7 per cent of the vote, leaving his rival Rafał Trzaskowski trailing him at 49.3 per cent. The presidential election was key to Donald Tusk’s plans, since the president wields the power of veto and can block legal measures needed to continue with liberal policies. The next election in Poland is two years away, when PiS will redouble its efforts to regain power. The present ruling coalition, without major changes, will struggle to win. The changes will prove a test for the coalition partners who are still learning to combine loyalty to the government with the pursuit of their own distinctive policies, and the need to win future votes against competition from their current coalition partners. The results of the first round of the present presidential election, two weeks ago, also showed deeper trends suggesting that Poland’ current political landscape is beginning to change fundamentally. Many of the young people of Poland are beginning to back radically right-wing parties.
A final exit poll gave Karol Nawrocki 50.7 per cent of the vote, leaving his rival Rafał Trzaskowski trailing him at 49.3 per cent.
Trzaskowski, the current mayor of Warsaw, stood for the country’s ruling coalition led by Donald Tusk, which replaced the PiS in government 18 months ago and promised to roll back eight years of conservative rule, which had isolated Poland from the EU mainstream.
The presidential election was key to Donald Tusk’s plans, since the president wields the power of veto and can block legal measures needed to continue with liberal policies.
Now, with PiS buoyed by Nawrocki’s win and Polish society split politically right down the middle, the conservative-nationalists led by Jarosław Kaczynski will redouble efforts to destabilise Tusk’s government coalition and win back full power in the next parliamentary elections in 2027.
Nawrocki ran a fiercely nationalist, anti-European campaign and attacked the Trzaskowski camp for favouring the EU Green Deal’s environmental policies. He also claimed Poland would be flooded with illegal immigrants at the Brussels’ behest and said Poland’s Catholic Church would be undermined by Trzaskowski’s pro-LGBTQI stance, as well as plans to liberalise strict anti-abortion rules.
The PiS candidate was also endorsed by Donald Trump in a brief meeting in the Oval Office. Kristi Noem, the US Homeland Security chief, told a CPAC conference in Poland last week that the US would be sure to stand by Poland if Nawrocki was elected.
Despite Nawrocki’s victory being a major blow for Tusk’s coalition government and the European People’s Party (EPP), EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen said she expected “very good” cooperation.
“I’m confident that the EU will continue its very good cooperation with Poland. We are all stronger together in our community of peace, democracy, and values. So let us work to ensure the security and prosperity of our common home,” von der Leyen said on social media.
‘German propaganda’
The election proved that PiS voters, in line with Trump’s MAGA supporters, instinctively reject any criticism of their candidate. Ample evidence provided by the Polish media of Nawrocki’s past close contacts with criminal gangland leaders in his native Gdańsk saw his voters dismissing these damning reports as ‘German propaganda’ — a reference to an often-repeated charge by PiS that Tusk and his supporters’ loyalties lie with Germany.
Meanwhile, Trzaskowski ran a campaign based on a promise to transcend political polarisation and build national unity. And he decided not to build his message on fears of a return of the PiS regime and even sought to adopt PiS themes such as a tougher approach to immigrants.
These are the issues which the Tusk government will have to address urgently.
A government reshuffle is expected, and a more open communications policy is much needed. The changes will prove a test for the coalition partners who are still learning to combine loyalty to the government’s main aim of delivering a viable democratic regime with the pursuit of their own distinctive policies, and the need to win future votes against competition from their current coalition partners.
The next election in Poland is two years away, when PiS will redouble its efforts to regain power. The present ruling coalition, without major changes, will struggle to win.
But the results of the first round of the present presidential election, two weeks ago, also showed deeper trends suggesting that Poland’s current political landscape is beginning to change fundamentally.
In the first round on 18 May, around 20 percent of Poland’s voters, many of them young people, backed radically nationalist rightwing parties. Leftwing candidates, also with strong support from young people, won a 10-percent share of the vote.
These results show that the next generation of voters is becoming impatient with both the PiS led by Kaczynski and their arch rival, Tusk’s Civic Coalition, which leads the present government. Both political movements are led by ageing politicians who remember Poland as it was before 1989 and governed the country in the post-Solidarity era.
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Nationalist Karol Nawrocki is narrow winner in Polish presidential election
Nawrocki won 50.89 per cent of the vote in the Polish presidential run-off election. He will succeed President Andrzej Duda, who has been in office for five years. The election was closely watched in the US, Russia and the rest of Europe. The result is a blow to Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition government. Tusk has not been able to fulfil promises to reverse laws on abortion and same-sex marriage. He is expected to be re-elected in the next parliamentary election on August 6. The winner of the election will be announced at a press conference on Monday. The results will be made public at 10pm (9pm BST) on Monday in Poland and on Tuesday in the U.S. and Europe. For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or see www.samaritans.org for details. In the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255.
Mr Nawrocki, who is 42 and an admirer of US President Donald Trump, won 50.89 per cent of votes in a race against Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s pro-Brussels mayor and ally of the country’s centrist government who received 49.11 per cent.
“Congratulations to the winner!” outgoing conservative President Andrzej Duda said on X. “Stay strong Poland!”
Mr Nawrocki, a eurosceptic historian who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour Poles over other nationalities.
The amateur boxer won despite his past dominating debate in the last days of the campaign – from questions about his acquisition of a flat from a pensioner to an admission that he took part in orchestrated gang fights.
While Poland’s parliament holds most power, the president can veto legislation, and the vote was being watched closely in Ukraine as well as Russia, the US and across the European Union.
The victory brings a “fresh victory for (European) patriots”, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on his Facebook page on Monday.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday congratulated Mr Nawrocki with his win and said she was convinced the EU could continue its “very good co-operation” with Poland.
“We are all stronger together in our community of peace, democracy, and values. So let us work to ensure the security and prosperity of our common home,” Ms von der Leyen said in a post on X.
Tight race
The race had Poland on edge since a first round of voting two weeks earlier, revealing deep divisions in the country along the eastern flank of Nato and the European Union.
About Karol Nawrocki Supports military aid for Ukraine, unlike other eurosceptic leaders, but he will oppose its membership in western alliances.
A nationalist, his campaign slogan was Poland First. “Let’s help others, but let’s take care of our own citizens first,” he said on social media in April.
Cultivates tough-guy image, posting videos of himself at shooting ranges and in boxing rings.
Met Donald Trump at the White House and received his backing.
An early exit poll released on Sunday evening suggested that Mr Trzaskowski was heading to victory before polling began to suggest otherwise a couple of hours later.
The outcome suggests that Poland can be expected to take a more populist and nationalist path under its new leader.
President’s role
Most day-to-day power in the Polish political system rests with a prime minister chosen by the parliament. However, the president’s role is not merely ceremonial – the office holds the power to influence foreign policy and veto legislation.
Mr Nawrocki will succeed Mr Duda, a conservative whose second and final term ends on August 6.
Under the Polish constitution, the president serves a five-year term and may be re-elected once.
Karol Nawrocki speaks on a victorious night in the the presidential election, in Warsaw, Poland. Reuters
Tusk headache
Prime Minister Donald Tusk came to power in 2023 with a coalition government that spans a broad ideological divide – so broad that it has not been able to fulfil certain of his electoral promises, such as loosening the restrictive abortion law or passing a civil partnership law for same-sex couples.
But Mr Duda’s veto power has been another obstacle. It has prevented Mr Tusk from fulfilling promises to reverse laws that politicised the court system in a way that the European Union declared to be undemocratic.
Now, it appears Mr Tusk will have no way to fulfil those promises, made to voters and the EU.
Some observers in Poland have said the unfulfilled promises could make it more difficult for Mr Tusk to continue his term until the next parliamentary election scheduled for late 2027, particularly if the Law and Justice party dangles the prospect of co-operation with conservatives in his coalition.
In the past two weeks, the candidates mostly fought for the support of people who voted for other candidates in the first round, in particular far-right’s Slawomir Mentzen, who came third with 15 per cent support.
Mr Trzaskowski tried to attract them with promises of deregulation. Mr Nawrocki used his credentials as head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), support for gun ownership, traditional families and Christian values, but also a critical tone on Ukraine, in common with Mr Mentzen.
Mr Nawrocki’s wife Marta, a civil servant, and three children featured strongly in his campaign.
Boxer, historian, politician
Mr Nawrocki, a 42-year-old amateur boxer and historian, was chosen by the Law and Justice party as part of its push for a new start.
The party governed Poland from 2015 to 2023, when it lost power to a centrist coalition led by Mr Tusk. Mr Nawrocki was chosen as a new face who would not be tainted by the scandals of the party’s eight years of rule.
However, his candidacy was clouded by allegations of connections to criminal figures and his participation in a violent street brawl. He denies the criminal links but was unapologetic about the street fight, saying he had taken part in “noble” fights in his life.
The revelations did not seem to hurt his support among right-wing voters, many of whom see the allegations as politically motivated.
“All my sports activities were based on the strength of my heart, the strength of my muscles, my fists,” Mr Nawrocki told a debate when confronted over reports he had been involved in mass organised fights between football hooligans. “It was a fair competition, regardless of the form.”
Mr Nawrocki portrayed the election as a referendum on the government, which he described as a metropolitan elite out of touch with their concerns.
“I am simply one of you,” he told voters in the eastern town of Biala Podlaska while on the campaign trail.
The Trump factor
Mr Trump made it clear he favoured Mr Nawrocki as Poland’s president.
He welcomed Mr Nawrocki to the White House a month ago. Last week, the conservative group CPAC held its first meeting in Poland to give Mr Nawrocki a boost. Kristi Noem, the US Homeland Security Secretary and a prominent Trump ally, praised Mr Nawrocki and urged Poles to vote for him.
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About Karol Nawrocki Supports military aid for Ukraine, unlike other eurosceptic leaders, but he will oppose its membership in western alliances.
A nationalist, his campaign slogan was Poland First. “Let’s help others, but let’s take care of our own citizens first,” he said on social media in April.
Cultivates tough-guy image, posting videos of himself at shooting ranges and in boxing rings.
Met Donald Trump at the White House and received his backing.