In Poland, not everyone is disappointed by the result of the American elections, far from it. President Andrzej Duda, from the ultraconservative Law and Justice (PiS) party and in stormy cohabitation with the democratic coalition led by Donald Tusk, did not wait for the official results to warmly congratulate Donald Trump. “You made it!” »he enthused on the social network X, Wednesday November 6. PiS President Jaroslaw Kaczynski also said he ” happy “ of this result.
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In view of the presidential election of May 2025, the victory of the Republican candidate gives new hope to the PiS, which had made it a privileged or even exclusive partner when it was in power from 2015 to 2023. In difficulty in the polls, the party by Jaroslaw Kaczynski hopes to make “the union of conservatives” on both sides of the Atlantic a meaningful speech, by denouncing the open reluctance that Polish liberals have always displayed towards Donald Trump.
Since taking office in December 2023, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has stepped up his attacks against the Republican candidate, going so far as to joke about his legal troubles. The page is turned. “I look forward to our cooperation for the benefit of the Polish and American nations”he commented on Wednesday. On November 2, he wrote on X: “Some people say that the future of Europe depends on the American elections, when it depends above all on us. (…) Whatever the outcome, the era of geopolitical outsourcing is over. »
Best student in NATO
This is the message that has prevailed among Polish officials since the announcement of the results of the American elections. “Europe must urgently take greater responsibility for its security, said Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. When it comes to military spending and decisions on migration policy, Poland is already doing what our allies will soon start doing. (…) Poland will be a leader in the process of strengthening the resistance of the European Union. »
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In this regard, the country benefits from a weighty argument: a defense budget increased to more than 4% of GDP since the start of the war in Ukraine, and several tens of billions of euros invested each year for the modernization of its armed forces. This position as NATO's “best student” gives Warsaw a card to play vis-à-vis the American defense industry as well as the next tenant of the White House. “I am sure that we will have multiple opportunities to find new joint projects to strengthen our cooperation », Wrote Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz in his congratulatory letter to Donald Trump.
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