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Poland’s presidential election valid, despite legal challenges: Supreme Court

01.07.2025 19:30
A special chamber within Poland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that the result of last month’s presidential runoff election was valid, despite nearly 55,000 legal challenges to the ballot in which conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki emerged as the winner.
Supreme Court judges meet on Tuesday.
Supreme Court judges meet on Tuesday.Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański

The judges said they were "confirming the validity of the election of Karol Nawrocki as President of the Republic of Poland on June 1, 2025."

Polish President-elect Karol Nawrocki. Polish President-elect Karol Nawrocki. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

More than 54,000 legal challenges to the election were submitted to the Supreme Court, state news agency PAP reported.

Twenty-one of these were fully or partially justified, but none undermined the final result of the ballot, the court decided.

Nawrocki, backed by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, won 50.89 percent of the runoff vote, while centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski garnered 49.11 percent, according to the National Electoral Commission (PKW).

Karol Nawrocki i Rafał Trzaskowski Karol Nawrocki and Rafał Trzaskowski. Photos: PAP/Jarek Praszkiewicz/Jerzy Muszyński
Members of Poland's National Electoral Commission (PKW). Members of Poland's National Electoral Commission (PKW). Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański

In the first round of voting in the presidential ballot on May 18, no candidate won an outright majority, meaning a second round had to be held.

Nawrocki is scheduled to sworn in for a five-year term before both houses of Poland’s parliament on August 6, succeeding outgoing President Andrzej Duda.

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Source: IAR, PAP