Perhaps the most disturbing for the Polish government, a victory for Trzaskowski was also supposed to offer certainty on the access of Poland to billions of euros in EU funds. Nawrocki’s victory is now raising questions about this financial blood because it is likely to block key judicial reforms.
“Tusk’s reform program is, if not died in the water, then at least die,” Ben Stanley, an associate professor at the Center for the Study of Democracy at SWPS University in Warsaw University.
Populists in power
Nawrocki joins other populists from Central Europe such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico de Slovakia who are skeptical about the EU, loving Trump and his vision of destroying traditional elites and released cultural wars, and to take the joy of Ukraine and fight for survival against Russia.
“Trzaskowski’s victory would have meant a unified voice for Warsaw on European and transatlantic affairs, but with Nawrocki, we will probably see a much stronger split – in particular on politics and oriental relations with the United States, which differ from the approach of Tusk,” said Adam Traczyk, an international executive director.
During the campaign, Nawrocki visited Trump in the oval office and received Without restraint of the American secretary for domestic security Kristi Noem.
“Donald Trump is a strong leader for us, but you have the opportunity to have a leader in Karol if you make him the leader of this country,” she said in Poland, and denounced Trzaskowski as “socialist” and “an absolute wreck of a leader”.
