Karol Nawrocki – the Law and Justice candidate – is the winner of Poland’s 2025 presidential election following a dramatic turn of events. Despite the final exit poll declaring Civic Platform’s Rafał Trzaskowski to be the winner by a margin of 0.6 percentage points, as the votes started coming in over the night, it was Nawrocki who ended up ahead with 51 per cent of the vote. The Law and Justice candidate managed to overcome the odds to become President, but the result will likely be a political standstill that will leave both sides unhappy.
The two parties have been at each other’s throats
History does not repeat itself, but it sure loves to rhyme. In the 2020 Polish presidential election, the Law and Justice candidate – the outgoing President Andrzej Duda – also received 51 per cent of