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I do not just mean the shocker in Romania last year, when winning right-wing candidate Călin Georgescu was denied his victory after state security services claimed he had been pushed to top slot by Russian tricks. After an investigation, no such tricks were identified, but Georgescu was still denied his victory.
Now in Poland, where the Conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki won the second round of the presidential election on June 1, Krzysztof Mularczyk reports that the justice minister Adam Bodnar has appeared on television to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the court charged with validating the election victory.
He suggested that the government and parliament may end up refusing to allow the president-elect to take the oath of office.
This, despite the fact that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observers’ mission – hardly an instrument of the Right – had not found any irregularities with regard to the way election had been conducted or how counting of the votes had been handled.
We thought former European Commissioner Thierry Breton was just running his mouth off when he bragged on French television in January 2025 that if the right-wing AfD won an election in Germany, the election would be annulled “as was done in Romania.”
He meant what he said, he just wasn’t supposed to say it.
Yet of course the Polish election gives the EU-establishment several other reasons to be nervous. Beside the victory of Nawrocki, there is exit polling by OGB agency – whose election polling turned out to offer the election’s most accurate predictions– which shows young Polish voters turned out en masse to reject PM Donald Tusk’s centre-left government in the presidential election.
How far right did they go? In both rounds of the election, younger voters overwhelmingly embraced right-wing candidates, although overall preferring more radical options such as the Confederation party to the main opposition Conservatives (PiS).
All of which might feed the prejudice of London’s anti-Brexit metropolitan elite, who think half of Europe’s voters are now fascist.
In Kevin Myers comment, he quotes the playwright David Hare who has a list of 15 reasons Europe is going fascist.
The reasons are taken apart by Myers, but still the list speaks volumes “for that intellectually forlorn and sorry waif, the English metropolitan Left.”
M.E. Synon
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