Conservative Karol Nawrocki received the Polish presidential election according to the number of final voting on Monday. Nawrocki won 50.89% of the votes in a very close race against the mayor of Liberal Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski, who won 49.11% of the vote.
Nawrocki will be replaced by Andrzej Duda, a conservative whose second and last period ends on 6 August.
Most of the daily power in the Polish political system is based on the premiere chosen by parliament. But the role of the president is not only festive. The Office has the power to influence foreign policy and veto legislation.
Who is Karol Nawrocki?
The right -wing candidate Nawrocki is a conservative historian and a heavyweight box champion. He was supported by US President Donald Trump in the presidential election. He won public opinion surveys and is ready to become a new Polish president.
Nawrocki reportedly received help from the White House after a briefly visited Trump in an oval office last month. Last week, the Minister of Inner Security, Kristi Noem, urged the Poles to vote for Nawrocki to ensure that the country had close ties with Trump.
Nawrocki, a 42 -year -old former boxer, was used as part of the law and justice as part of his pressure on a new beginning. The party managed Poland from 2015 to 2023, when it lost the power of the central coalition led by Donald Tusk.
Nawrocki was the last head of the Institute of National Memories, which includes nationalist historical stories.
He made efforts to overthrow monuments to the Soviet Red Army in Poland and Russia responded by putting it on the search list according to Polish media reports.
“Defender of the Polish value”: Nawrocki placed as a defender of traditional Polish values, the Associated Press reported. His supporters described him as the embodiment of traditional patriotic values.
Those who oppose secular trends, including the visibility of LGBTQ, accepted it and considered it a reflection of the traditional values they grew up with.
Nawrocki’s attitude to NATO, EU: He against NATO membership for Ukraine and stands as skeptical to the EU.
Nawrocki’s “criminal ties”: The report further reported that Nawrocki’s candidacy was overcast by accusations of the past context with criminal personalities and participation in a violent street battle.
Nawrocki denied criminal ties, but acknowledged that he took part in “noble” struggles. It seems that the revelation did not seem that his support between right -wing voters, many of whom considered the accusations politically motivated.
Nawrocki’s Catholic value: Nawrocki, a political rookie, spent a campaign praising his main Catholic values on the railing against migration and attempts to fight the climate change, Bloomberg reported.
“Nawrocki’s victory could endanger … ‘: With the victory of Nawrocki, the agenda of Prime Minister Donald Tusk is at stake. In 2023, the Tuskova coalition expelled Polish nationalists. Nawrocki’s victory could endanger Tusk’s ambition to return Warsaw to the EU mainstream and maintain the financing of the block.
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