State head: Poland’s new President Karol Nawrocki discharges Office’s oath

Poland’s new right -wing conservative President Karol Nawrocki is sworn in today. The 42 -year -old independent historian is close to the opposition party PIS and had emerged from the runoff election on June 1st. The political newcomer narrowly beat the candidate of the pro -European government camp, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. This was a severe political defeat for Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

With Nawrocki’s taking office, it could now be stormy in Polish politics – with consequences for Germany and Europe. The future head of state has already made out powerful against the Tusk, which was respected in the West. For him, this is the “worst head of government that Poland has had since 1989”. Already in the election campaign, Nawrocki said his goal was to bring the government of Tusk down.

For Tusk, resistance from the presidential palace is nothing new. The previous head of state Andrzej Duda, who now has to leave after two terms, also comes from the ranks of the PIS. Duda has put many stones in the way of the government. Nawrocki’s statements suggest that he wants to proceed with even greater consequence.

Poland’s president has a lot of power

In Poland, the head of state is elected for an term of five years and has more powers than the Federal President in Germany. The president may have a say in the lines of foreign policy, is commander -in -chief of the armed forces and can stop laws decided by the parliament with his veto law. So he cannot aggregate, but governance is considerably more difficult.

Nawrocki had never held a political office. Most recently, he was the director of the Institute for National Memory (IPN), which roughly corresponds to the now dissolved Stasi documents in Germany. He owes his climb to the powerful PIS boss Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a political archenemy of Tusk. Since Nawrocki’s election success, the PIS has a chance of returning to power – especially since Prime Minister Tusk has a slump and finally acting unhappily.

Amateur boxers, bouncers and Trump fan

Born in Gdansk Nawrocki, likes to give the hard guy. He grew up in the Sielce workers’ district and won a title in the amateur boxing as a young man. During his studies, he worked as a bouncer in a luxury hotel in the Baltic Sea bathroom Sopot. From this time, good contacts with the red light milieu are said.

The Trump fan stands for PIS’s policy, which Poland ruled from 2015 to 2023. The father of two children, whose wife brought her eldest son into marriage as the third child, wants to preserve Polish traditional values. He warns of the submission of skills to the EU and demands reparations from Germany to damage the Second World War.

Nawrocki praised this as “civic engagement” as “civic engagement” as “civic engagement” praised as “civic engagement” as “civil engineering”.