Poland's Culture War | Danube Politics

In the race for the presidency, a right wing candidate faces off against the mayor of the country’s largest city. 

 In a rising country, the battle is between two identities: the global, liberal one. Versus a national conservative vision.  

As with Romania, so now with Poland. 

On Sunday June the first, Eastern Europe’s new powerhouse will decide its destiny.  

Will Poland’s next President be the candidate sympathetic to Donald Tusk’s centrist government? Or will the country’s voters turn right – thereby ensuring a legislative logjam until 2027?  

For now at least, everything is still to play for. And just as with Romania, it is a game with many turns left to run. 

As the race quickens, Gavin Haynes talks to Michael O'Shea, the Danube Institute's Visiting Fellow, who covers the Visegrád states, on whether Karol Nawrocki can do what George Simion could not. 

Danube Politics is the current affairs brand of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based think tank, specialising in Hungarian affairs, conservatism and geo-economics.