Although polls before the presidential elections indicated the advantage of Rafał Trzaskowski, ultimately Karol Nawrocki was the winner, winning 50.89% in the second round. votes.
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The election results made it possible not only for the new president to be satisfied. Sławomir Mentzen, the leader of New Hope, which co-founded the Confederation, obtained 14.81% in the first round, which can also be considered a success. Fourth place with a score of 6.34%. it went to Grzegorz Braun, leader of the Confederation of the Polish Crown.
The second half of the year brought an intense confrontation between the government of Donald Tusk – after the summer reconstruction – and President Nawrocki. The new president vetoed as many as 20 bills during his first four months in office, which exceeds the number of vetoes from both terms of office of Andrzej Duda.
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Karol Nawrocki or Donald Tusk? Poles chose “politics of the year”
In the latest SW Research survey conducted for rp.pl, participants were asked who they believed to be the biggest winners in Polish politics. The question was: Who do you think are the biggest winners of 2025 in Polish politics?
Karol Nawrocki gained a clear advantage over Donald Tusk. Here are the results:
- 37.8 percent — Karol Nawrocki
- 8.8 percent —Donald Tusk
- 7.8 percent — Radosław Sikorski
- 7.6 percent —Grzegorz Braun
- 5 percent — Sławomir Mentzen
- 3.2 percent —Adrian Zandberg.
- 2.6 percent — Waldemar Żurek
- 1.6 percent — Włodzimierz Czarzasty.
- 0.9 percent each respondents chose the president of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński, and the president of PSL, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, as the winners of the year in politics
- 0.7 percent — Magdalena Biejat
1.3 percent respondents believe that the winner of the year in politics was another politician. However, 21.8 percent respondents have no opinion on this matter.
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Karol Nawrocki is the most frequently chosen winner on the Polish political scene by men (40%) than by women (36%). This answer is most popular among people aged 35 to 49 (42%). Residents of cities with a population of 200,000 to 499,000 see the current president as the winner this year noticeably more often than others. inhabitants (48 percent) – comments Adam Jastrzębski, senior project manager at SW Research, quoted by “Rz”.
Source: rp.pl
