The nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki won the presidential elections in Poland against the Liberal Mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzawski, according to the official results published this Monday, June 2, inflicting a great blow to the Proeuropean Government.
According to figures from the National Electoral Commission, Karol Nawrocki won 50.89% of the votes against 49.11% for Rafal Trzawski in the second round of the elections held on Sunday, whose results stand out polarization in the country.
Karol Nawrocki, 42, was supported by the party on the right and the justice (pee) of the extrovert president Andrzej Doubt. This historian specialist in the criminal world has campaigned in the slogan “Poland First, the Poles First”, pointing to the millions of Ukrainian refugees living in the country, a member of NATO but also of the European Union, whom he is also critical.
Zelensky accused of “insolence”
If he is committed to maintaining the support of Poland in Ukraine, who has been fighting the Russian army since February 2022, Karol Nawrocki opposes the NATO membership in this neighboring country and denounces the help aid granted to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
In a video, he said that the social benefits were “especially destined for the Poles” and that “in the queues between doctors and hospitals”, the Poles should “have priority.” He also criticized kyiv for not having “shown gratitude for what the Poles did”, and accused Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of “insolence” with respect to Poland.
In Poland, the president has a mainly honorary role, but has a crucial veto power. That of the outgoing conservative president Andrzej Doubt prevented Prime Minister Donald Tusk from celebrating many of his electoral promises, including judicial reforms, the liberalization of the law on abortion and the introduction of civil unions. Therefore, this election is likely to block the progressive program of the Government Government on private abortion and LGBT+rights.
Historian and Museum Director
Karol Nawrocki was born in the port city of Gdansk, where he played football and practiced boxing in his youth, before obtaining a doctorate in history and an MBA. He was director of the World War II Museum from this city from 2017 to 2021.
Since 2021, the National Memory Institute (IPN) has administered responsible for investigating Nazi and communist crimes. His investigation focuses on the Polish opposition Anti -comunista, organized crime in the communist era or the history of sport.
Last year, Moscow added this nationalist to his list of people sought due to his steps destined to unlock monuments of the Soviet era in Poland.
Trump would have predicted his victory
Donald Trump’s admirer, Karol Nawrocki met him at the White House shortly before the first round. He states that the US president said: “You will win.” This meeting raised accusations of American interference in Poland in the elections in Poland.
The American Internal Security Minister Kristi Noem also supported Karol Nawrocki during a conservative demonstration in Poland in Poland. “It must be the next president,” he said.
During the campaign, Karol Nawrocki advocated the implementation of border controls with Germany to avoid the entry of migrants, repressed according to this country and said Berlin pays repairs for World War II. Hopefully to seduce voters from afar, Karol Nawrocki has signed commitments prepared by its leader, Slawomir Mentzen.
Revelations about your past
His campaign was splashed by the revelations about his past. The media revealed that he had acquired an apartment of an older man after a transaction considered opaque for observers and his political opponents.
The Onet.PL news site has published an explosive survey, claiming that it was involved in the introduction of sex workers in a hotel in Sopot (north) at the time I worked there as a guard, twenty years ago. He denied these accusations and described the investigation of “many lies.”
Karol Nawrocki is also the author of several books, including one under a pseudonym, which earned him criticism. In 2018, signing Tadeusz Bcyr, he published a job dedicated to a gangster of the communist era, Nikodem Skotarczak.
The same year, the author presented as Tadeusz Bcyr appeared on state television, blurred face and modified voice, stating that Karol Nawocki had inspired him in his work. Karol Nawrocki in turn wrote on social networks that Tadeusz Bcyr had asked him for advice. “I thanked me by giving me an interesting book that I recommend,” he added. The media finally discovered that Tadeusz Bcyr and Karol Nawrocki were only the same person.
Also accused of maintaining links with gangsters and neo -Nazis, he described these accusations as “manipulation”, evoking rare and limited contacts to professional purposes. “No one has heard a positive word on my part about Nazism,” he said.
While the newly elected nationalist candidate threatens to harden the tone with Berlin and Brussels, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked his new Polish counterpart on Monday to cooperate on Monday on the basis of the rule of law. ” Karlock, aiming at Karlock’s victory, “pointing to the victory of Karlock’s victory, pointing” to the oligatal “a non -news of Karlock’s victory, pointing to Karlock’s victory”, pointing “to the oligatal”, for Karlock’s victory, pointing “to the Olaavowal”, for the victory of the victory of Karlock’s victory. Brussels “.
Source: BFM TV
