Warsaw centrist mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and nationalist Karol Nawrocki will compete in the second round of presidential elections in Poland on June 1, almost completing the election commission's vote.
The committee published data from the 99.9% voting area at 2:27 a.m. Monday without giving overall results. Data shows that Trzaskowski and Nawrocki lead 15 candidates in 16 provinces.
An IPSO late exit poll showed Trzaskowski led by 31.2% of the vote and Nawrocki led by 29.7%.
If confirmed, the results would mean that Trzaskowski and Nawrocki would lead the vote to determine whether Poland sticks to the pro-European track set by Prime Minister Donald Tusk or is closer to a more nationalist agenda.
Both candidates began preparing for the second round early Monday, with Trzaskowski meeting voters in Warsaw and Navoroki.
“We need to talk to everyone, and arguments are the most important. I'm glad that many young people vote, but the biggest challenge is to convince them to vote for me.”
Far-right candidates Slawomir Mentzen and Grzegorz Braun together accounted for more than 21% of the vote, a historically high percentage that won widespread support from young voters. However, it is not clear that their votes will be held in the second round.
Braun used fire extinguishers to launch Hanukkah candles in the country's parliament in 2023, an incident that sparked international anger and won 6.3% of the vote.
Mentzen stopped immediately accrediting Nawrocki.
“Voters … are not potato sacks, they are not thrown from one place to another,” he said. “Every one of our voters is a conscious, smart person who will make their own decisions.”
Stanley Bill, a professor of Polish Studies at the University of Cambridge, said the shared performance of nationalists and far-right parties meant that the result was “the disappointment of Trzaskowski Camp and put the wind in the sails of Nawrocki.”
Bill added: “I want to add that the result was a big blow to Donald Tusk's ruling coalition.”
With the support of the Nationalist Law and Judicial Party, Nawrocki said he would win a vote from the people on both sides of the political landscape.
“My social agenda and I will be the guardian of the social achievements of law and justice government [trade union] It also provides quotes for left-wing, socially sensitive circles. ” he said.
The Polish vote was held the same day as Romania's presidential vote vote, with centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan defeating George Simion, a tough lawyer for the Eurosceptics.
In Poland, the president has the power to veto the law. Trzaskowski's victory in the second round will allow Tusk's administration to implement an agenda that includes retreating from the judicial reform introduced by the law and the Judicial Party, critics say that critics say undermine the independence of the court.
However, if Navoloki wins, the deadlock that has been around since Tusk became Prime Minister in 2023 will continue. So far, the current president Andrzej Duda has hindered the efforts of Ivory.
Role in Europe endangered
Trzaskowski has committed to mastering Poland's role among the key players at the heart of European policymaking and has worked with the government to revoke judicial changes in the right-wing law and the Judicial Party.
Navoroki's campaign was shocked by the accusations, and he denied that he deceived an elderly man to sell him an apartment in exchange for a promise of care he did not provide. But Trump showed support by meeting Navoloki at the White House.
Nawrocki declared the election as a way to prevent Tusk from achieving uncontrolled power and opposed liberal values represented by Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, patron of the LGBT parade and removed the Christian cross from public buildings.
Unlike other Eurosceptics in Central Europe, Navoroki supports military aid to help Ukraine resist Russia. But he got tired of intervening in anti-Ukrainian sentiment among some of his tired neighbors.
He said Polish citizens should prioritize public services and criticized Keeff's attitude toward the remains of Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II.
