Polish eurosceptic Nawrocki expected to win presidential vote, news website Onet says
Nationalist and eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki was expected to win Poland's presidential election based on all votes counted, the news website Onet reported on Monday, in results that would deal a blow to the reform agenda of the pro-European government.
The Polish Electoral Commission said on its website that it had counted all of the votes. Official results are expected some time on Monday morning, the Commission had said earlier.
Based on the final count, Nawrocki had 50.9% of the vote, while his rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal Warsaw mayor and an ally of the government led by Donald Tusk, had 49.1%, Onet reported on its website.
Nawrocki, 42, an historian and amateur boxer who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour Poles over other nationalities, including refugees from neighbouring Ukraine.
While Poland's parliament holds most power, the president can veto legislation, and the vote was being watched closely in Ukraine as well as Russia, the United States and across the European Union. REUTERS
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