The four-party coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk appears to have been shaken to its foundations, as the fallout of June 1's presidential election has begun to spread on the following day. The coalition had stood on the verge of being able to speed up its reformist agenda,

In a closely contested presidential runoff, conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has been declared the winner of Poland's 2025 presidential election, securing 50.89% of the vote against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski's 49.

Warsaw’s liberal mayor and his insurgent populist challenger are locked in a dead heat as they fight for the presidency of Poland, exit polls projected after Sunday’s head-to-head vote, leaving the country tilting between two wildly different political futures.