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.
Insanity. The people of Poland will be deeply regretful in time.
Well at least the next Behemoth album’s lyrics are sure to be deep, angry and amazing. Nergal is going to be PISSED about this stupidity.
Civil wars are good, and easy to win
You forgot this:
/sNo I didn’t, I’m actually pro-murder and definitely don’t think normalizing it will have any negative consequences
Luckily president in Poland is mostly symbolic. The state head is Prime Minister like in most European countries.
Everything I’ve read is they can veto legislation, act on international affairs, etc. Absolutely not largely symbolic unless a Polish person would like to correct me.
Especially a big deal considering the current coalition is very weak and can barely agree on legislation anyhow.
Yeah he can veto and has to appoint ambassadors. The previous president didn’t do that out of spite, so we were unable to recall people who should’ve been fired. They sent out people who aren’t ambassadors technically, but fulfill that role.
So yeah, salty rightwingers doing everything to fuck Poland over out of spite. What’s new.
Can’t win them all, I guess. 😮💨
Tough. I remember checking exit polls yesterday and Trzaskowski was in the lead, just to lose it in the late poll 2 hours later.
I’m not entirely sure what enticed people to vote for Nawrocki. Did they fear the majority having absolute power? We’ve seen the questionable tactics they used to take back the national TV from PiS. I haven’t really followed polish politics since then.
The frustrating part is that the populace doesn’t seem to remember all of the other “questionable tactics” PiS used for a lot of other things.
Wouldn’t be terribly shocked to learn that Russia is leaning on the scales here, tbh.
On the plus side, at least he’s just as rusophobic and willing to arm-up as the other candidates, right? Right?
Russophia is a propaganda term.
A sober view of russian “culture” and history is not a phobia. It is reasonable to approach russians as they are (e.g. strong majority support for genocidal imperialism even with adjustments for preference falsification during polling) and not as one would like them to be.
Propaganda or not, I really hope poland does not soften their anti-russian attitude, else we’ll be proper fucked in eastern europe
He has PhD in history and, according to Wikipedia, is “listed as one of the persons wanted by the Russian Federation on criminal charges in relation to actions pertaining to the removal of monuments commemorating the presence of the Red Army on Polish territory”. I think that he might be even more anti-russian than Trzaskowski.
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…)
Well, PiS is not alt-right, more like populist-right…
What’s the difference in your opinion?
Their agenda? Their methods?
I’m not aware of significant differences myself.
