US EditionPoland’s Presidential Election Could End Last Vestige of Populist Resistance to PM Tusk | News Channel 3-12
- Poles voted on May 18, 2025, in a presidential election in which Rafal Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki emerged as frontrunners to replace term-limited President Andrzej Duda.
- The election reflects a contest between Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European coalition and the nationalist Law and Justice party still holding the presidency through Duda's veto power.
- Trzaskowski, Warsaw's left-wing liberal mayor and pro-EU advocate, emphasizes reducing polarization and strengthening Poland's role in Europe, while Nawrocki campaigns as a national-conservative outsider with US Republican support.
- Polls put Trzaskowski ahead with 30-35 percent and Nawrocki trailing at 20-25 percent, but the narrow gap and a runoff on June 1 could bring a closely fought final round.
- A Trzaskowski win would enable Tusk's government to advance reforms now blocked by presidential vetoes, while a Nawrocki victory would sustain opposition control and constrain the prime minister's agenda until 2027.
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Presidential election in Poland – threatens the end of the democratic comeback? And: dispute over new gas power plants in Germany.
The President of Poland does not have as much power as that of France, but he is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, helping to determine foreign policy and, above all, signing the laws. This last task has been since 2023 serving Andrzej Duda to make life impossible for Prime Minister Donald Tusk . Making use of his right to veto or sending the laws to the Constitutional Court, is preventing the changes Tusk promised in campaign. Impatie…
The mayor of western Warsaw and a conservative historian could advance from Sunday's first round to a decisive second round. If the ruling Civic Coalition candidate does not win, some of their reforms could be permanently stalled. The campaign took a surprising turn with an elderly man's apartment and the PiS candidate's rambling explanations, but another case could have hurt the mayor in the process.
The mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski is the wish-president of the liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The national conservative opposition wants to continue to saw his chair via the head of state
Rafał Trzaskowski, favorite for the presidential elections on Sunday, is trying to please a non-his own electorate, making a bet
On Sunday, the first round of the presidential election is taking place in Poland, which will actually open the final two-week battle: it will be led by two campaign leaders for the votes of 11 candidates who will be dismissed by the Sunday ballot.
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