Who could be Poland’s next president?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Will Poland’s next president be a former football hooligan or a Mr Bonjour? With citizens heading to the polls for the second round of voting this weekend, Poland will decide between Karol Nawrocki, the candidate backed by US President Donald Trump, and Warsaw's mayor, the pro-European Union Rafal Trzaskowski. The divided country on Russia’s border has a major decision ahead
In this episode:
- Bartosz Węglarczyk (@bweglarczyk), ONet Editor-in-Chief
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra and Amy Walters with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Marcos Bartolome, Khaled Soltan, Mariana Navarrete, and our guest host, Natasha Del Toro. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, a former boxer with ties to the mob versus a linguistic enthusiast called Mr. Bonjour. |
| 0:20.9 | There's a saying in Polish that if either side puts a horse to run for president, |
| 0:28.0 | people will support it anyway. |
| 0:30.5 | Poland goes to the polls. |
| 0:32.5 | We unpack the candidates, their visions, and the region ahead of the country's presidential election. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is The Take. |
| 0:47.8 | You know, one of the challenges for me so far has been pronunciation. |
| 0:54.8 | I know. |
| 0:56.9 | Why do we start out by maybe you can help me? |
| 1:00.3 | So it's Falchuskowski and Karol Novrovsky. |
| 1:04.2 | Navrozky. |
| 1:06.2 | Navrozky. |
| 1:07.1 | Navrozky. |
| 1:09.1 | Navrozzchi. |
| 1:09.9 | There you go. That's perfect. Navroatsky. |
| 1:11.6 | Yes. |
| 1:12.6 | We could do this whole episode of me just trying to learn how to pronounce these names. |
| 1:18.6 | That's a good one. |
| 1:20.6 | Okay. |
| 1:21.6 | My name is Bartek Wenglarcich. I'm editor-in-chief of Onet, which is a news website in Poland. I'm based in Warsaw. |
| 1:31.3 | Before that, I was a foreign correspondent for a long time. I was a correspondent for one of the Polish newspapers to Moscow, then to Brussels, and then to Washington, D.C. |
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