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The populist-right opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice party (PiS), has won Poland’s presidential election, defeating his pro-European rival Rafał Trzaskowski, in a nail-bitingly close contest.

Official results showed Nawrocki took 50.89% of votes in the runoff, with Trzaskowski on 49.11%.

Nawrocki’s victory is a major blow for the coalition government led by Donald Tusk and is expected to prolong the current political deadlock in the country as well as complicate the country’s position in Europe.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

On the plus side, at least he's just as rusophobic and willing to arm-up as the other candidates, right? Right?

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

Russophia is a propaganda term.

A sober view of russian "culture" and history is not a phobia. It is reasonable to approach russians as they are (e.g. strong majority support for genocidal imperialism even with adjustments for preference falsification during polling) and not as one would like them to be.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Propaganda or not, I really hope poland does not soften their anti-russian attitude, else we'll be proper fucked in eastern europe

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

He has PhD in history and, according to Wikipedia, is "listed as one of the persons wanted by the Russian Federation on criminal charges in relation to actions pertaining to the removal of monuments commemorating the presence of the Red Army on Polish territory". I think that he might be even more anti-russian than Trzaskowski.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hard to trust the alt-right to do anything, especially the right thing, especially when it's about Russia, who did finance many of their political allies. (FN/RN in France, Trump in the US, Orbán in Hungary, etc...)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, PiS is not alt-right, more like populist-right...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What's the difference in your opinion?

Their agenda? Their methods?

I'm not aware of significant differences myself.

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