Aleks Szczerbiak (@aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social)

What is at stake in Poland’s presidential election? A victory for the liberal-centrist ruling party’s candidate will remove the last obstacle to implementation of the government’s institutional reform and elite replacement project. If the right-wing opposition candidate wins the government faces…

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What is at stake in Poland’s presidential election? A victory for the liberal-centrist ruling party’s candidate will remove the last obstacle to implementation of the government’s institutional reform and elite replacement project. If the right-wing opposition candidate wins the government faces continued resistance from the President and will become more unstable, but an early parliamentary election is unlikely. A critical election On June 1st, Poland holds a presidential election run-off between Rafał Trzaskowski - Warsaw mayor and deputy leader of the liberal-centrist Civic Platform (PO), Poland’s main governing party - and Karol Nawrocki, head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) historical research institute who is supported by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) grouping, the ruling party between 2015-23. https://polishpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/what-is-at-stake-in-polands-presidential-election/