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Poland’s nationalist PiS fields historian for doubtless presidential face-off

Poland’s nationalist PiS fields historian for doubtless presidential face-off


“I’m able to characterize everybody in Poland,” Nawrocki informed a PiS conference in Kraków, Poland’s second-largest metropolis and its longtime historic capital, referencing his working class background.

“I’ve led a traditional and humble life,” Nawrocki added in a swipe at Trzaskowski, whom PiS has lengthy painted as elitist.

“Millions believed Poland may get higher, however they have been wronged,” Nawrocki mentioned of the 2023 election that elevated Tusk to energy. “As president, I’ll desk new laws to handle [issues like] vitality safety or financial freedom.”

In a prolonged speech, Nawrocki additionally criticized the EU’s Green Deal as an impediment to development. “No to local weather insanity on the expense of Polish households,” he mentioned.

Nawrocki, 41, doesn’t belong to a political party. As a historian he has targeted on Poland’s more moderen historical past; from 2017 to 2021 he served because the director of Poland’s World War II Museum in Gdańsk, the place — critics say — he skewed the museum’s narrative towards nationalism after it had received worldwide reward for its portrayal of occasions and the plight of civilians.

In 2021, he grew to become the top of the Institute of National Remembrance, a state physique scrutinizing Poland’s World War II expertise and its pre-1989 communist period.

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