Poland's pro-Trump pivot: What next after narrow Nawrocki win in presidential runoff? • FRANCE 24

Why did an EU success story vote for a pro-Trump candidate? Karol Nawrocki narrowly elected president - in part thanks to a first round surge by candidates further to the right. Why has a nation that’s a net recipient of EU funding, one that shares a border with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, turned its back on Brussels? 

We’ll ask if time's soon up for the swing of two years ago in favor of the reformist coalition led by center-right prime minister Donald Tusk and draw conclusions from the defeat of Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. Could there even be a snap general election? What about that ongoing battle over the independence of the courts, culture war issues like abortion and what attitude towards Ukraine and European defense. Historical rivalries with Kyiv were talked up on the campaign trail? But historical rivalries are even greater with Moscow and just as the likes of Germany and France scramble to level up on defense, Sunday’s winner clearly believes that his backers in Washington will maintain the 10-thousand US troops stationed in Poland. A sure bet? Can Poland be both Atlantist and eurosceptic? 
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