Poland’s President-elect Karol Nawrocki met with current President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw in his first public appearance since being elected. Nawrocki will replace Duda, whose second five-year term ends on Aug.

( JTA) — Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a big blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's pro-European orientation.