Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski thanked his voters and congratulated his opponent in the Polish presidential election, Karol Nowrocki, on his victory.
“I fought for us to build together a strong, safe, honest, responsive Poland. A modern Poland in which everyone can realise their goals and aspirations. Thank you to everyone who voted for such a Poland, I am sorry that I did not manage to convince the majority of citizens of my vision of Poland. I am sorry that we did not win together,” Trzaskowski wrote on social network X.
” I congratulate Karol Nowrocki on his victory in the presidential election. This victory is binding, especially in such difficult times. Especially with such a close result. Remember this,” he added.
Earlier today it became known that Polish conservative politician Karol Nawrocki, who is supported by the opposition right-wing party Law and Justice (PiS), wins the second round of the presidential election held on 1 June.
According to the country’s electoral commission’s official tally of 100 per cent of the vote, Nawrocki won 50.89 per cent, while his opponent, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who is backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist Civic Platform, won 49.11 per cent.
Voter turnout in the second round of voting was 71.63 per cent.
Opinion polls conducted on the eve of Sunday’s vote indicated an extremely small gap between the candidates, while exit polls released after the election ended on the evening of 1 June showed Trzaskowski leading by the narrowest of margins.
Trzaskowski has served as mayor of Warsaw since 2018 and has pro-European and liberal policies.
Nowrocki, director of the Polish National Memory Institute, was backed by the conservative Law and Justice party, to which Andrzej Duda, who has been Poland’s president for two consecutive terms, belongs.