A top politician from Poland’s ruling left-liberal coalition warns against Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski running in the Polish presidential elections set for May 25, 2025.
“The election of Rafał Trzaskowski would mean war with America,” said Third Way politician Michał Kamiński, who also serves as deputy speaker of the Polish Senate, during an appearance on TVN24.
Trzaskowski is a member of Civic Platform (KO), the same party as ruling Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Kamiński instead supports a joint candidate backed by the left-liberal parties, such as Radosław Sikorski, who is the current foreign minister.
“There’s a huge chance for that,” he said. “If you ask me why Trzaskowski is a worse candidate in the second round than Radosław Sikorski, it is because Radosław Sikorski did not remove crosses from offices in Poland and Radosław Sikorski did not participate in or give permission for parodying the Holy Mass,” he said.
As to the election of a conservative Law and Justice (PiS) candidate, that would mean “war with Europe, an alliance with America.”
The deputy speaker of the Senate emphasizes that there are many voters in Poland who do not want PiS to return to power, but they also do not like the vision of a cultural revolution in Poland, and it will be easier for Sikorski to win over this electorate than for Trzaskowski.
Kamiński is convinced that Donald Trump will want to influence the course of the Polish elections. However, his pick of Sikorski is odd given the FM’s American wife is a journalist well-known for her outspoken hatred of Trump, most recently saying “Trump 2.0 could be good news for dictators.”
Furthermore, Sikorski himself is a Tusk loyalist, reprising his role as foreign minister yet again in a Tusk-led government, which has now had its numerous insults of Trump handed to the U.S. president-elect in a dossier.
“Let’s not rule out, or rather be very certain, that this is a campaign strongly supported from overseas. It will be a campaign that can count on support from America, because for the American administration, the chance to place its very own president in Warsaw is certainly something that Americans will look at with curiosity, because Trump has very few allies in Europe today, he has few of them,” said Kamiński.
The Third Way politician emphasized that next year, Poland will have the 13th largest defense budget in the world.
“This is a budget that is very noticeable from the point of view of the Pentagon, so do not count on Donald Trump, with his approach to the world, to look indifferently at who takes the presidency in such an important country today as Poland,” he said.
