Europe was following the Polish presidential election campaign, which ended on Sunday evening with the victory of the conservative-sovereigntist candidate, Karol Nawrocki.

The 43-year-old historian, director of the Polish National Remembrance Institute (IPN), won the presidential race, despite polls foreseeing his defeat, gathering 50.9% of the votes. At the same time, his liberal rival, Warsaw's mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, received 49.1%.

Nawrocki´s victory is considered a serious blow to the European Union and to the Polish pro-EU center-left government led since December 2023 by Donald Tusk, former president of the EU Council.

The elected Polish president, who ran as an independent candidate, was backed by the former ruling party, “Law and Justice” (PiS). But he owes his victory to t

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