According to the authoritative election results, Rafał Trzaskowski won 31.4% of the vote and Karol Nawrocki 29.5%. The 3rd place was taken by Sławomir Mentzen with 14.80 percent. He was followed by Grzegorz Braun with a score of 6.34 percent.
Ukrainian MP Mikołaj Kniażycki in an interview with the tv newscast Espreso stated that the PiS supports Ukraine due to its anti-Russianism, but in many areas specified as the economy and historical policy disagrees with the Ukrainians. “If they were in power, the support would be different than now,” he said.
Ukrainian MP on elections in Poland. That frightened him.
However, Mikołaj Kniażycki devoted most attention to the results of far-right candidates. “I was most terrified by 6 percent of Braun. It's anti-Ukrainian and anti-Semitic. He stepped on the Ukrainian flag," he said. — Braun together with Mentzen, who besides did shameful things in Ukraine in the streets of our cities, together have over 20%,” noted Ukrainian MP on Espreso television.
In February 2025, on the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine Mentzen in Lviv, he said that "Ukraine must end the cult of Stepan Bandera as shortly as possible". Mer of this town Andrij Sadowy called Mentzen "a pro-Russian politician with a Polish passport" and wrote that "it is essential to check whether he is allowed to enter Ukraine at all". Mentzen replied that Sadowy should be ashamed that “in specified a wonderful city he agrees to worship genocidals, criminals and murderers of my countrymen.”
He added that he "should be banned from entering Poland". The Ukrainian fact Portal wrote about the provocation of the Polish presidential candidate in Lviv.
Presidential elections in Poland. "The society is divided"
According to Kniażycki, there is an expanding number of right-wing supporters “with Russian support”. “Polish society is divided — about half are Democrats and liberals, the another half are conservative nationalists,” he added.
That is why, according to the Ukrainian, the policy is hard to foretell the result of the presidential elections in Poland. “I hope that the results of the elections in Romania will influence Poland and inspire democratic Poland to fight for victory,” he said. In the Sunday elections in Romania, pro-European mayor of Bucharest Nicosor Dan won, who defeated right-wing extremist George Simion. On Sunday, Dan said that "he hopes that the pro-European candidate will win besides in Poland in the presidential election".
