Poland presidential election 2025: rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins, official results show – live
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Nawrocki’s victory over Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is a blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU Polish government

Nawrocki, aka the “nationalist” candidate, just won the election in Poland with a very narrow margin.

Nawrocki is formally independent, but is aligned with the PiS party of current president Duda, who were responsible for undermining Polish democracy by among other things stacking the courts with illegitimate judges. As the president has the power to block all judidcal appointments, it does not look like Poland will have their democracy back for the next five years: Duda has simply blocked all judicial appointments rendering the Polish state a lame duck, and in all likelihood Nawrocki will keep up the same obstructionist strategy.

Then again, that’s what they voted for.

  • coyootje@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The main reason why the more populist government won this time around over the VVD (the more centrist conservative party) is down to the failures of the VVD in the years before, causing this mess we’re currently in, and the fact that the populist candidate slightly softened his rethoric about immigration. Don’t get me wrong, he still hates immigrants but he went from wanting to ban Islam and burn Koreans to just wanting to send immigrants back to their own country. On top of that, he also seemingly steered more into being there for the “normal” (read: white) Dutch person.

    As for them not getting anything done: this was more or less expected. It’s part of the right wing playbook but it’s also just such a mess here politically with all the different factions with different goals that cancel each other out that it is very difficult to achieve anything.

    Want more houses? Farmers have to give in, leading to massive protests and tractors on the highways. Also, with the farmers party in the government this could cause them to have to resign. Want more farmers? This isn’t allowed due to Dutch (and EU) nature laws and regulations (thank God we have those). Want to give money to lower class people? Oh wait, they’re right wing… They might promise that to win votes but that will never happen.

    At the moment the best we can hope for is that the populist leader comes through on his threats of pulling out of the government if he doesn’t get his (crazy) way soon and that the people here have learned their lesson that voting right doesn’t achieve anything. I’m sure VVD will still get a lot of votes but I at least hope that we can get a mixed government again, it’s been a long time since that happened…