Nationalist moves ahead in Polish presidential election


Trzaskowski has promised to work intently with the federal government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, permitting it to push by a legislative agenda presently blocked by incumbent President Andrzej Duda, allied with PiS.

“With a president from the identical camp, Tusk’s coalition might lastly go long-promised reforms, offered the four-party coalition can agree on them internally,” mentioned Joanna Sawicka, a political analyst with Polityka Perception, a Warsaw-based assume tank. “Key points like abortion legislation liberalization should face important hurdles in parliament, even with the presidency secured.” 

A Nawrocki victory would deal a big blow to the Tusk authorities, which might face one other adversarial president prone to block key legislative proposals.

“Nawrocki’s presidency means a high-level battle between the president and Tusk. But it surely’s clear that will probably be tough for the federal government to implement key reforms as a result of the president can veto most of them,” mentioned Sawicka.

Nawrocki battled a cascade of revelations about his previous together with accusations that he helped prepare prostitutes for friends of a luxurious lodge whereas working as a safety guard, that he took half in fights as a soccer hooligan and that he acquired an house from a pensioner underneath questionable circumstances.

Conservative voters strongly backed Nawrocki, anxious about Trzaskowski’s liberal report as mayor of Warsaw, the place he supported LGBTQ+ rights and was out of step with the highly effective Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.