Poland’s top court confirms Nawrocki’s election for president

The Supreme Court of Poland on Tuesday, June 1, 2025 upheld the election of Karol Nawrocki a after deciding that complaints about the validity of the country’s presidential election were insufficient to void the results. Both supporters of the elected President Karol Nawrocki and supporters of his competitor in the second round, Rafal Trzaskowski, have gathered at the court building on Krasinski Square in the center of Warsaw. Polish Supreme Court upheld allegations of vote-counting irregularities in a total of 11 district election commissions. At the same time, the Court left more than 54000 election protests unheard and ruled that the irregularities had no impact on the overall election result. The ruling paves the way for Nawrocki to take the oath of office before both chambers of parliament on Aug. 6. Karol Nawrocki won 50.89% of votes in a very tight race against Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%, in the June 1 election. Nawrocki is a 42-year-old historian who had no political experience prior to the campaign and who was not even a party member until he was tapped by the conservative Law and Justice party that governed Poland from 2015 to 2023. SOT1: Marta Lempart, Womens Strike (Polish): "I believe I have the right to know the election results. I want to know which candidate got how many votes. How many votes did Karol Nawrodki get, how many votes did Rafał Trzaskowski get. And the National Electoral Commission itself admitted that it does not know the result." SOT2: Marta Lempart, Womens Strike (Polish): "Here in the Supreme Court building we are dealing with a situation in which some PiS masqueraders (Law and Justice Party), who have called themselves some Chamber, will issue a statement, lying that this is a resolution on the validity of elections. I remind you that the so-called Chamber of Control is not a court. The people who sit in it are not judges." SOT3: Mariusz Szewczyk, Committee for the Defense of Democrac