Poland has elected Karol Nawrocki, a conservative backed by President Donald Trump, within the nation’s presidential runoff election, based on a remaining vote depend issued Monday.
Nawrocki received 50.89% of the vote, gaining a slim victory over liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who acquired 49.11%, the Related Press reported.
The primary spherical of voting two weeks in the past revealed deep divisions within the nation alongside the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union. Nawrocki will succeed Andrzej Duda, a conservative whose second and remaining time period ends on Aug. 6.
Trzaskowski conceded defeat and congratulated Nawrocki on Monday, thanking all those that voted for him.
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Karol Nawrocki arrives at his headquarters after the presidential election runoff in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Picture/Czarek Sokolowski)
“I fought for us to construct a robust, protected, sincere, and empathetic Poland collectively,” he wrote on X. “I’m sorry I wasn’t capable of persuade nearly all of residents of my imaginative and prescient for Poland. I’m sorry we didn’t win collectively.”
U.S. Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem final week stumped for Nawrocki on the Conservative Political Motion Convention in Warsaw, the place she additionally slammed “weak” European leaders who she argued have allowed mass migration of getting “destroyed their civilizations.” Noem praised Poland’s strict border enforcement, warning that “socialists” like Trzaskowski would take such protections away from the Polish individuals.
Trump hosted Nawrocki on the White Home in early Could in the course of the conservative candidate’s marketing campaign.
Below the Polish structure, the president serves a five-year time period and could also be re-elected as soon as.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was among the many leaders providing their congratulations to Nawrocki on Monday morning.
“Poland, which preserves the power of its nationwide spirit and its religion in justice, has been and stays a pillar of regional and European safety, and a robust voice defending freedom and dignity for each nation,” Zelenskyy wrote. “By reinforcing each other on our continent, we give higher power to Europe in international competitors and produce the achievement of actual and lasting peace nearer. I stay up for continued fruitful cooperation with Poland and with President Nawrocki personally.”
Karol Nawrocki greets supporters at his headquarters after the presidential election runoff in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Picture/Czarek Sokolowski)
The U.S. has about 10,000 troops stationed in Poland and Noem instructed that army ties may deepen with Nawrocki as president. A standard chorus from Nawrocki’s supporters is that he’ll restore “normality,” as they consider Trump has executed. U.S. flags typically appeared at Nawrocki’s rallies, and his supporters believed that he supplied a greater likelihood for good ties with the Trump administration.
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Nawrocki, a 42-year-old beginner boxer and historian, has additionally echoed a few of Trump’s language on Ukraine. He guarantees to proceed Poland’s help for Ukraine however has been important of Zelenskyy, accusing him of profiting from allies. He has accused Ukrainian refugees of profiting from Polish generosity, vowing to prioritize Poles for social providers reminiscent of well being care and education.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who shares Nawrocki’s nationwide conservative worldview, hailed Nawrocki’s “incredible victory.”
Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian backed by the right-wing Regulation and Justice occasion, addresses supporters at his headquarters after the presidential election runoff in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Picture/Czarek Sokolowski)
In the meantime, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen supplied measured congratulations, emphasizing continued EU-Poland collaboration rooted in shared democratic values: “We’re all stronger collectively in our group of peace, democracy, and values. So allow us to work to make sure the safety and prosperity of our frequent residence.”
Nawrocki’s victory is a comeback for the Regulation and Justice occasion, which ruled Poland from 2015 to 2023, when it misplaced energy to Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist coalition.
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Duda’s veto energy has been one impediment to the pro-European Union Tusk in fulfilling sure electoral guarantees, reminiscent of loosening restrictions on abortion or passing a civil partnership regulation for same-sex {couples}. Some observers in Poland have stated the unfulfilled guarantees may make it harder for Tusk to proceed his time period till the subsequent parliamentary election scheduled for late 2027, notably if Regulation and Justice dangles the prospect of future cooperation with conservatives in his coalition.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
