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.

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    5 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…)