Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.

Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor, in a runoff election on Sunday. His election marks a return to power for the Law and Justice Party, which led Poland from 2015 until 2023 and endorsed Nawrocki, who was relatively unknown before entering the race late last year. It will stymie efforts by the country’s centrist prime minister to make reforms.

The election carried steep stakes for how Poland memorializes the Holocaust , when 3 million Polish Jews were murdered in a Nazi campaign supported by Polish collaborators.

Law and Justice promoted historic

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