Nowrocki’s victory over Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is a blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU Polish government

• Poland: right-wing candidate Karol Nawrocki ahead in presidential election runoff

Ahead of the election, our Europe correspondent Jon Henley spoke to experts about what a Nawrocki win would mean for the country’s foreign policy. Here’s a snippet of what he wrote:

While in theory Polish presidents have limited influence over foreign policy, a win for Nawrocki, backed by PiS, would inevitably – and, eventually, significantly – constrain Poland’s European ambitions, analysts say.

“We’re not so much talking direct policy consequences,” said Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations thinktank. “But if Trzaskowski, Tusk’s candidate, loses, the message is that Poles reject him and his government.”

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