Karol Nawrocki and members of his family give their thumbs up as they pose behind a ballot box at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, during the second round of the presidential elections on June 1, 2025
Photo: Sergei Gapon / AFP
There are more and more worrying signs that the Polish left-liberal establishment may be working to delegitimize conservative Karol Nawrocki’s election victory.
Prominent politicians of Donald Tusk’s ruling party, in cahoots with the mainstream liberal media and close-to-the-government ‘experts,’ are making claims on social media that there was fraud in the second round of the presidential election last Sunday. Ordo Iuris President Jerzy Kwaśniewski sounded the alarm on X on Friday.
Liberals in Poland start the "stolen elections" campaign.
— Jerzy Kwaśniewski (@jerzKwasniewski) June 6, 2025
A HUGE rise in support for @NawrockiKn in the 2nd round is presented as proof of fraud.
I wouldn’t bother, but the liberal government refuses to recognize the Supreme Court chamber responsible for election validity…
The allegations made, for instance, by Civic Coalition (KO) MP Roman Giertych, include outright insinuation of fraud. In an open letter posted on social media to members of district electoral commissions, the politician said he had received “hundreds of emails with information about irregularities in individual commissions. A certain pattern is repeated … Namely, in many commissions, the results of the vote in the second round of the election do not correspond to those from the first round. If in some we have an increase for Mr. Nawrocki by 400%, and a decrease for Trzaskowski, it is obvious that an error (or rather a fraud) occurred.”
Giertych has even asked for an investigation into the alleged irregularities by the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW).
I expect immediate action by the ABW in the following areas: determining the algorithms used by TikTok …and securing all data related to #AplikacjaMateckiego. Also securing screenshots from accounts on X propagating it.
The app Giertych refers to is one that PiS politician Dariusz Matecki recommended to members of the so-called Election Control Movement who sit on election commissions, to prevent potential fraud and verify the certificates of voters coming to the polling stations. “Trusting they won’t try to cheat is like believing in Putin’s good intentions,” the politician said on X. But Giertych now alleges—without providing any evidence—that the app itself may have somehow enabled fraud.
Journalists working for the liberal mainstream media perpetuate the insinuations, with Bartoz Wieliński, deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, saying on X,
Nawrocki’s miraculous victories in many committees in Poland. Where did the sudden increase in the number of votes come from? It wasn’t only in the Krakow commission that a miracle with the ballot box took place on Sunday. There are many more such commissions throughout Poland.
Cudowne zwycięstwa Nawrockiego w wielu komisjach w Polsce. Skąd nagłe wzrosty liczby głosów?
— Bartosz T. Wieliński 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@Bart_Wielinski) June 5, 2025
Nie tylko w krakowskiej komisji doszło w niedzielę do cudu na urną. Takich komisji jest znacznie więcej w całej Polsce. https://t.co/B8DOjB48JL
A prominent lawyer with links to the Tusk government has once again brought into question the legitimacy of the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court, a body that adjudicates cases filed regarding the validity of elections. In a post that he has since deleted, Michal Paprocki said on X:
The validity of elections is still decided by a chamber whose status as a court was questioned by the CJEU—the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs (IKNiSP) of the Supreme Court, composed of judges appointed in a procedure deemed to be contrary to standards of independence. Rule of law on paper—in reality: a structure subordinated to PiS. A bit like Orwell’s: “First they catch you, then they convince you that you control them.”
The First President of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska issued an official response to the claims suggesting that the Chamber is illegitimate. She referenced the “numerous false statements made by Minister Adam Bodnar and other politicians, repeated in the media, questioning the constitutional authority of the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs (IKNiSP),” and nailed down that
The claims that the competence of IKNiSP does not result from the Constitution of the Republic of Poland are false and misleading to the public opinion.
According to the Ordo Iuris president, a renowned attorney, what is happening is an “artificial whipping up of election hysteria.”
It is clear that radicals among liberals are pushing towards a ’Romanian Scenario.’
Kwaśniewski stressed to europeanconservative.com that
Poland is a stable democracy, and never before have election results—confirmed by the official National Electoral Commission on Monday after all ballots were hand-counted—been attacked so aggressively. Liberals understand that raising false claims may be supported by hand-picked judges, especially after the Chamber of the Supreme Court has already been delegitimized. This could open the way to new elections.
The allegations by the sore loser left-liberals in Poland are all the more ironic as they come after it has been revealed that the Tusk-backed candidate Rafał Trzaskowski’s campaign was illegally propped up by foreign funding. At the same time, public financing of opposition PiS (the Law and Justice party) was unlawfully withheld by the minister of finance, going against the decisions of both the National Electoral Commission and the Supreme Court.
