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Warsaw, Poland – June 01: Carol Naroki, candidate for the President of the Law and Justice Party (PIS), the gestures when he arrives with his family to throw his ballot at a polling station during the Polish Polish election on June 01, 2025 in Warsaw. Today’s elections are a closely challenged race between the funeral and Rafal Tzaskovsky, the Liberal Mayor of Warsaw, who is supported by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The election is seen as a test of whether the government with its centrist parliamentary coalition can overcome the right populism embodied by PIS. (Sean Gallup Photo/Getty Images)
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Nationalist Carol Naroki, supported by US President Donald Trump, has put the Polish Presidency in a strict leakage competition, which creates problems for the current EU government.
Definition He showed the adults, which was upholding the Opposition Law and justice (PIS), which lost its majority in 2023, provided 50.89% of the vote against 49.11% of Warsaw Mayor Rafal Taskovski. The early results, published before the closure of the polls, had put a liberal in the leading role.
Nawrocki will inherit his conservative colleague Andrzej Duda-who himself won the leadership with a short advantage of the razor against the TRZASKAKOWSKI in 2020 for a five-year term and can then be re-elected once.
The Polish elections were carefully monitored in Europe, the United States and fought with Eastern European neighbors Russia and Ukraine, as it raises questions about the solidarity of the future alignment of Warsaw with Brussels and Kiev.
The head of the state in Poland is overshadowed by that of parliament, but the president retains a critical veto for legislation. Duda exercises this to block several reforms led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition.
The Eurosceptic Nawrocki can also lead to significant failures for the government of the former European Board President Tusk, who repaired the destroyed relations with Brussels and last year unlocked payments to up to the access to Doshen 137 billion euros ($ 156 billion) EU funds that have been frozen because of fears of the rules.
The country of 37 million and sixth largest EU economy was The largest net beneficiary of EU funds in 2024
“I am convinced that the EU will continue its very good cooperation with Poland. We are all stronger in our community of peace, democracy and values,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday On the X Social Media platformS “So let’s work to guarantee the security and prosperity of our common home.”
Early a hard supporter of Ukraine in his fight against Russia’s invasion, Poland offered extensive security and logistical assistance to Kiev and earlier in January suggested an EU Presidency Rotating One -year Presidency From the Kremlin’s main European ally under the motto “Security, Europe!”
Nawrocki occupies a more critical position to Kiev during his campaign, citing Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski alleged poor treatment to Poland. He also excluded the country’s long-held ambition to stick to NATO, which was afraid to throw away the military coalition against Russian hostilities.
Right populism test in Europe
It is critical that the Polish presidential runway was the last test of the rise of the right populism in Europe, ignited after Mag’s victory, led by Trump in November in November. Navy’s victory broke the series of liberal victories achieved in Romania and Portugal in May.
US Interior Security Secretary, Christie, November, called on Polish voters to expand Nawrocki’s support during the first ever Conservative Political Action Conference in Poland last week, declaring their EU Trzaskovsky opponent as an “absolute leader coach”.
“Donald Trump is a powerful leader for us but you have the ability to have just as strong a leader in Carol if you make it a leader on this country” she saidS “You can be that brilliant city on a hill that the rest of Europe and the world will watch and know how strong you are, how free you are, because you have chosen the right leader who will protect it and protect it.”
Poland maintains good relations with Washington, especially on security, where this avoids Trump’s wider criticism against – to a large extent European – NATO allies, who have historically failed to fulfill the purpose of defense costs of the 2% GDP coalition. Poland exceeded this standard in the last five years by registering a 4.12% contribution In 2024, before the United States, for a 3.38%investment in the US Arsenal, ranging from F-35 jets to Abrams tanks.