POLAND WAKES UP TO A NEW PRESIDENT AS THE CONSERVATIVES WIN – Karol Nawrocki won 50.89% of the votes
Polish Conservative Nationalist Opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki won the second round of the country’s presidential election with 50.89% of the votes, the electoral commission said early on Monday, June 2nd, in a blow to the left-wing agenda of the pro-European government.
Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal Warsaw mayor and an ally of the government led by Donald Tusk, got 49.11%. An exit poll on Sunday had shown Trzaskowski winning with a razor-thin majority. This was proven to be overly optimistic.
Warsaw resident Ewa Kalinowska. “We are kind of fifty-fifty, practically. I hope that the president will rise above all this divide and will provide us with a safe future here in Poland.”
Nawrocki, 42, a eurosceptic historian who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour the people of Poland. Something he was elected to do.
