Conservative Karol Nawrocki has won Poland's weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count

Nawrocki’s election now ensures two more years of gridlock for the centrist coalition — if Tusk’s government can hold on that long. “The election result shows that Poland is very polarized, very divided down the middle,

A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist government’s efforts to unspool the legacy of authoritarianism in the country.