Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election

Final vote count gives conservative candidate 50.89 percent, while his liberal rival receives 49.11 percent.

Conservative eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s presidential run-off election with all votes now counted, according to the country’s election commission.

Nawrocki won 50.89 percent of votes in the tight race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11 percent, the commission announced said on Monday.

Nawrocki, 42, a 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.