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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] AlecSadler 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ThrowawayPermanente 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Civil wars are good, and easy to win

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ThrowawayPermanente 3 points 3 days ago

No I didn't, I'm actually pro-murder and definitely don't think normalizing it will have any negative consequences

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Luckily president in Poland is mostly symbolic. The state head is Prime Minister like in most European countries.

[–] timbuck2themoon 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Can't win them all, I guess. 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 23 points 3 days ago

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.