Felix Ackermann compares Charles Nawrocki to J.D. Vance, emphasizing political success and social mobilization around him.
The attacks against Nawrock led to the other effect, strengthening its position and solidarity among voters.
Historian indicates that attempts to stigmatize Nawrocki revealed class tensions and similarity of the Polish right to the American MEGA movement.
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An crucial reason for Nawrocki's election victory, supported by the PiS candidate in the presidential election was that the run of his rival Rafał Trzaskowski has been declared a ‘hit on the president of the IPN’ “The historian who taught at Fernuniversitaet in Hagen and the publicist in a published article said.
The attacks on Nawrocki had the other effect. "A clearer conviction"
‘The focus was on Nawrocki's proximity to aggressive fans, previously unknown scandal regarding the unfair takeover of the property and its contacts with a 3 - city underworld. But this frontal attack, alternatively of showing Charles Nawrocki as a simpleton, strengthened solidarity with the opposition candidate (for president – ed.)" we read.
Comparing the resumes of both candidates in the second circular of the presidential elections in Poland, Ackermann stressed that "contrast between Gdańsk Nawrocki and the rival Trzaskowski from Warsaw couldn't be bigger‘. In his opinion, “the structural reason for Donald Tusk's election failure is Unspoken Classism‘.
‘Trying to represent Nawrocki as a gutter boy was the exact other of the intended effect, especially in the decisive 2 weeks before the second round. Nawrocki was seen not only by supporters of the PiS camp as 'his man'. The more intense the attacks were on him and the more shocking the revelations about him, the clearer was the conviction that 'he is 1 of us'“ Ackermann wrote.
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Historian estimated that in the run Nawrocki actively sought voters' votes for views more right than those represented by the Law and Justice. As an example, Nawrocki's declaration that the decision on "the membership of Ukraine in the EU depends on the country's authorities' authorisation to exhume (Polish victims of the Volyn crime – ed.)".
“Charles Nawrocki’s political career shows that Polish right consistently import practices of the American MEGA movement (Make America large Again, make America large again – red). Nawrocki, however, is not Polish Trump, but Gdańsk Vice president J.D. Vance. He showed this erstwhile he quoted a psalm from the Old Testament during the election evening. These 2 connect social promotion, radicalization conducted on behalf of Christ and political success," Ackermann wrote.
Historian concluded that in Poland, as in the United States, “trying to embarrass political opponents” strengthen narratives depicting contemporary past as “the fight of good against evil”. At the same time, "the fresh kind of politics has nothing to do with the conservative Roman Catholic piety of the 1980s," he said.
Przemysław Czarnek, PiSPolsat NewsPolsat News
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