Calls to renegotiate coalition agreement after victory in Poland presidential election for rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki – as it happened
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Leaders of parties forming Tusk government to discuss coalition arrangements after Nawrocki’s victory over Warsaw mayor Trzaskowski

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.

  • starman@programming.devEnglish
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    9 days ago

    He has PhD in history and, according to Wikipedia, is “listed as one of the persons wanted by the Russian Federation on criminal charges in relation to actions pertaining to the removal of monuments commemorating the presence of the Red Army on Polish territory”. I think that he might be even more anti-russian than Trzaskowski.

    • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Hard to trust the alt-right to do anything, especially the right thing, especially when it’s about Russia, who did finance many of their political allies. (FN/RN in France, Trump in the US, Orbán in Hungary, etc…)