Socially-conservative Nawrocki becomes Poland's new president - PKW
Karol Nawrocki, a candidate backed by the socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) opposition party, won the presidential runoff vote in Poland on Sunday, having garnered 50.89 percent of the vote, Sylwester Marciniak, the head of the National Electoral Commission (PKW), told reporters on Monday morning.
Marciniak read out a PKW resolution to this effect which officially confirmed the election of Nawrocki as Poland's new president, and added that it would be published in the Journal of Laws.
Nawrocki, who secured 29.54 of the vote in the first round on May 18, will take over as Poland's next president for a five-year term in August.
Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw and a member of the ruling centrist party Civic Coalition (KO), secured 49.11 percent of the vote. Trzaskowski had won the first round of the presidential election on May 18 with 31.36 percent of the vote.
Nawrocki was supported by 10,606,877 voters and Trzaskowski by 10,237,286. This means that he won by a margin of 369,591 votes or 1.78 percent more than Trzaskowski.
The turnout, at 71.63 percent, was the highest in the history of Poland's presidential elections since 1990, the PKW head said.
There were over 29 million people eligible to vote in the Sunday runoff election and over 21 million went to the polls. The number of invalid votes totalled 189,294 or 0.9 percent of the vote. (PAP)
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