Nawrocki, Poland and president
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Karol Nawrocki, a historian and former boxer, will be Poland’s next president. Nationalist forces in the United States and Europe had been rooting for him: Mr. Nawrocki was supported by President Trump, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary and George Simion, a right-wing politician in Romania who recently lost a presidential election.
Warsaw’s liberal mayor and his insurgent populist challenger are locked in a dead heat as they fight for the presidency of Poland, exit polls projected after Sunday’s head-to-head vote, leaving the country tilting between two wildly different political futures.