# Poland, divided between Trump and the EU
**Date de l'événement :** 27/06/2025
* Publié le 27/06/2025

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![A meeting of the candidate for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, with voters, Kazimierz the Great Square, Tarnow, 28.03.2025](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/memory-sp-pr.appspot.com/o/prod%2F1y7CgDOTakHDiB3dgoi0%2FprojectsMedias%2Fow5zCCsC8SM1hMKLFyGn%2Fthumbs%2Fshutterstock_2605174077_zzk84_zmhsw_1600x900.png?alt=media&token=67cb0254-4011-4c65-bd25-cd98619bdc6e) 

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Nawrocki’s narrow victory (50.89%) over Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw and candidate of the government coalition, illustrates and reinforces the political polarisation of Poland and the rise of the populist “Trumpist” right in Central and Eastern Europe. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, there has been much speculation about whether Europe’s geopolitical centre of gravity is shifting eastwards. The Polish election seems to confirm that the political centre of gravity is shifting to the right.  
  
**A narrow victory  
  
**We are witnessing a relative erosion of the duopoly of the two major parties, Civic Platform (PO) and Law and Justice (PiS), whose leaders – the current Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and Jarosław Kaczyński respectively – have dominated the political landscape for over twenty years.  
  
Kaczyński’s skill lay in propelling a candidate with no responsibilities in his party, who was little known to the general public a few months ago, and, above all, who is from a different generation, to the presidency (a position held since 2015 by a PiS man, Andrzej Duda). Nawrocki, a historian by training and director of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, has helped shape PiS’s memory policy. He won the second round, despite his troubled past as a hooligan, by appealing to voters on the right.  
  
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## Auteur(s)
Jacques Rupnik

### Date
27/06/2025

### Type(s) de ressource
`#Texte` 

### Discipline(s)
`#Science politique` 

### Thématique(s)
`#Diplomatie` `#Etat / nation / société` 

### Aire(s) géographique(s)
`#Europe` `#Amérique du Nord` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

## Crédits photo
KSikorski / Shutterstock

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### Partenaire(s)
**[The Conversation](https://sources.sciencespo.fr/structure/the-conversation_QdYqgYnzKVyePLgMp3g8)** 


### Hébergeur(s)
`#The Conversation` 

## Autres crédits
Sujet de la photographie : A meeting of the candidate for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, with voters, Kazimierz the Great Square, Tarnow, 28.03.2025

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