Policy Voices | Poles castigate Tusk and hand again the Presidency to Law and Justice

Two weeks ago, the centre held in Europe after a Super Sunday of elections in Romania, Portugal and Poland. And that was in part because of Poland where the centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski narrowly beat the nationalist Karol Nawrocki in the first round of the Presidential elections. That is no longer the case. In last Sunday’s run-off, Trzaskowski failed to materialize a victory and lost against Nawrocki, the candidate backed by the right-wing Law and Justice Party. Today’s guests attribute Trzaskowski’s failure to the fact that Prime Minister Tusk hasn’t been able to pass the significant reforms he promised before being elected almost two years ago. Even though the main reason why he hasn’t been able to do so is because of President Duda from the Law and Justice Party. And yet, Poles elected a President that is only going to make Tusk’s life even harder if not impossible. To discuss the fallout from the Polish elections, host Catarina Vila Nova sits down with Leszek Konrad Jażdżewski, Editor-in-Chief of Liberté! and 2022 European Young Leader (EYL40), and Michał Olszewski, former deputy mayor of Warsaw who served under Rafal Trzaskowski for six years and 2015-2016 European Young Leader (EYL40) who currently serves as Board Member of PGNiG TERMIKA, Poland’s leading natural gas company. If you want to comment on this episode you can send us an e-mail: [email protected]