"Poland has not died yet. I truly don't. Although the recently elected President, Karol Nawrocki is simply a extremist nationalist. Although he is simply a political novice and is known about him small more than just his scandals: he got into fights with hooligans, he was caught lying during the run to buy an flat from a impoverished pensioner in request and so on," writes the German weekly "Die Zeit". The latest edition publishes an extended figure of the Polish president-elect, as well as a separate comment on the consequences of Karol Nawrocki's victory.
Commentary author Alice Bota notes that at specified moments Poles say, "Well. Hard, life goes on."
Bota believes that these will not be easy times for the EU, which Nawrocki despises, nor for Donald Tusk's government, due to the fact that Nawrocki “wants to block it until it falls apart”. "However, neither Poland nor the EU are lost," he adds.
"PiS radicalizes"
According to Bota, 1 should not hope that the PiS, which issued Nawrocki in the election, will pass the “meloni-style methamorphosis”, an Italian Prime Minister who has a “aggressively right-wing” position on migration and in the EU is constructive. "PiS developed in precisely the other direction. In the past, it was rather pro-European, supported Ukraine's support policy, and was prepared to welcome millions of people from the neighbouring country. At 1 time even supported the main EU climate protection task Green Deal. It's the past," Bota writes.
In her opinion, the Law and Justice have been radicalized and this radicalization will continue. "Nawrocki stated that the elections united the 'patriot camp'. This refers to utmost right-wing presidential candidates from the first circular of voting, 1 anti-Semitic and anti-EU, another hating Muslims and libertarian. The camp of the far right now feels more coherent than ever, united in hatred, so to speak, ideologically divided only on how many states and social welfare are acceptable," Alice Bot says.
Nawrocks like Donald Trump
The author notes that “the right besides collides with reality”. Although Nawrocki proudly hugged Donald Trump's hand in the White home and received his support from him, Poland “is part of the Europe Trump despises”. "If Trump wants to retreat troops from Europe, he will besides retreat them from Poland. If Trump accepts the defeat of Ukraine and Russia strengthens, then Poland will besides touch, no substance how transatlantic Karol Nawrocki seems. And how much like Donald Trump. Nawrocki embodies Polish Trumpism. Like Trump, he's an outsider. How Trump despises the elite. How Trump knows nothing about governance,” writes a German journalist.
And he adds that after the first shock on the night of the election, representatives of the ruling camp began to “sing another song.” "And it reads: the President's powers are limited. In the EU, negotiations are held by the Prime Minister. Even a presidential veto can be rejected. It's difficult, but not impossible. Nothing is lost, so let's do it," we read.
Tusk has no excuses
According to German writer Donald Tusk frequently did not even effort to fulfill his electoral promises. “All he had to do was say: President! And he waited until his candidate yet won so he could rule. Now there will be nothing of it," the author notes. He adds: “Behold, the ruling coalition has awakened.”
At best, Tusk is 2 years old to do the best he can. Only the next elections will show whether "the Law and Justice Orders were just an accident at work in Poland's history, or will they become the norm". Or possibly – as he adds – the utmost right will become the dominant force, due to the fact that people already have adequate political establishment.
“Poland has not died yet. Never before in the past of the country have the elections been even. More than 20 million Poles voted. Everything came to a difference of 369 591 votes. There is 1 Poland that has decided on the result of the selection. There's the another one. Now it's time to sing her a song," concludes Alice Bota.
