Poles apart: hard right wins by a sliver
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The Economist
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Poland’s presidential election was a fight between two distinct visions of the country’s future. Our correspondent explains how the nationalist victor, a political newcomer, will shape Europe. Why drunken bar brawls are declining in Britain (7:31). And remembering the “Wonga Coup” mercenary, Simon Mann (12:18).
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| 0:42.5 | The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
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| 0:56.7 | Our daring correspondent went out in Cardiff, a city known as one of Britain's most hard |
| 1:02.4 | drinking. In years past, he might have expected booze-fueled punch-ups to break out. |
| 1:08.1 | Not anymore, and that lack of violence is reflected across Britain. |
| 1:13.6 | And when private mercenaries tried to overthrow the regime of Equatorial Guinea in 2004, |
| 1:20.1 | the so-called Wangaku brought the world of military contractors into the public eye. |
| 1:24.9 | Its leader was longtime mercenary Simon Mann. Our obitaries editor remembers him. |
| 1:34.3 | But first... |
| 1:40.3 | These days, elections often seem almost existential. |
| 1:47.0 | In the case of Poland's presidential race, a knife-edge vote was a choice between two quite distinct futures. |
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