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Karol Nawrocki, a candidate from the right-wing conservative Law and Justice party and the current head of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, won the presidential election with 50.89% of the vote. This was confirmed by the official data of the State Election Commission of Poland after counting 100% of the election protocols.
His rival in the second round was the current mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, a representative of the ruling Civic Coalition. Trzaskowski received 48.11% of the support, which is 1.78% less than Navrotsky. In quantitative terms, 10.6 million Poles voted for Nawrocki, while more than 10.2 million voted for his opponent. The difference between the candidates was 369 thousand votes.
This year’s election campaign was one of the most intense in Poland’s modern history. The high voter turnout, which reached 71.6%, demonstrates the extraordinary mobilisation of Polish society and the polarisation of the electorate.
Analysts are already calling Navrotsky’s victory a key turning point in Polish politics. The election of the Law and Justice president is expected to strengthen the right-wing conservative course, particularly in matters of historical policy, security and national identity. At the same time, it remains to be seen how the newly elected president will cooperate with the liberal parliamentary majority and Donald Tusk’s government.
