Ultranationalist Karol Nawrocki was sworn in this Wednesday as Poland's new president for the next five years, after defeating Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate close to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in the June elections. With Nawrocki's inauguration, Poland faces years of political deadlock, with a difficult coexistence between an ultraconservative and nationalist president and a liberal-centrist and pro-European prime minister.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday overcame the vote of confidence he himself had submitted to in the hope of regaining the political initiative, after his ally and mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, who was narrowly defeated by far-right candidate Karol Nawrocki in the presidential elections earlier this monthThe strong results achieved by the conservative and political novice had sparked a wave of doubt among the governing coalition partners, especially because the country's president has the right to veto measures approved by Tusk's administration. Nawrocki, who is a former boxer, He embodies a more conservative and nationalist stance than Trzaskowski and Tusk himself, reformists and pro-Europeans.