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Right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential runoff by a whisker. The result is a bitter blow for Donald Tusk’s pro-European government.
Poland’s State Election Commission announced on Monday morning that the right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki had received 50.89% of the vote in Sunday’s presidential runoff, putting him marginally ahead of his liberal-conservative, pro-European rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, on 49.11%.
Nawrocki will be inaugurated in August, succeeding President Andrzej Duda, who, after two terms in office, was no longer able to run for president.
Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian from Gdansk, was nominated by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. PiS presented Nawrocki as a non-partisan, independent “citizens’ candidate” although his campaign was paid for and organized by the party and his program aligned with that of PiS.
as a trot myself i have to admit that most internationals make their conjunctural analysis with their armpits.
Polish trots were in a kinda weird place, not much different from the usual western ones, but that automatically made them better compared to for example shitawful anarchists which had only two notable actions: Attempted arson of USSR consulate in 1991 and attacking and snitching to the cops on ML youth who tried to join the “unified left” manifestation in iirc 2014. Said manifestation then marched rightwards in real time with grand finale being commemorating Home Army, so in retrospect it was a win for the ML youth to not participate, but still.