内容摘要：Children play inside a makeshift shade where farmers take rest in Sandahkhaiti, a floating island village in the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Children play inside a makeshift shade where farmers take rest in Sandahkhaiti, a floating island village in the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

More than 20% of voters opted for candidates on the far right, whose conservative and nationalistic worldviews overlap with Nawrocki’s.Sławomir Mentzen of the hard-right Confederation party won 14.8% and — in one of the biggest electoral suprises — a far-right extremist, Grzegorz Braun, won over 6%.

Both have embraced antisemitic andlanguage but Braun has taken his stance much further.During the campaign Braun stormed a hospital with supporters and tried to carry out a citizen’s arrest of a doctor who had carried out a legal late-term abortion on a woman whose fetus was diagnosed with severe condition, putting her health at risk.

Supporters at one of his rallies pulled down a Ukrainian flag from city hall in Biała Podlaska. Braun was already known as a provocateur known for spreading Russian propaganda. In 2023, he used a fire extinguisher toon a Jewish Hannukkah menorah in the Polish parliament.

Candidates from parties in Tusk’s coalition government, which includes left-wing, centrist and center-right parties, together won about 40%.

“Right-wing and far-right candidates gathered as many as 54% of votes — this is the most surprising result of the first round of the presidential election,” Buras said. “This brings Nawrocki into a favorable position ahead of the run-off on June 1. He will have a larger pool of votes to draw upon.”“You can see I’m mentally incompetent and I can walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them,” he said.

In response to Democrats who question whether he should have initially run for reelection at all, he said: “Why didn’t they run against me then? Because I’d have beaten them.”During his formal remarks, he called upon the group to remember the sacrifices of those lost in battle, whose echoes he said can still be heard.

He also spoke of his son, Beau, who died at 46 of brain cancer. A twice-elected state attorney general, Beau Biden was considering a run for governor, and his death deeply affected the elder Biden.“This day is the 10th anniversary of the loss of my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq, and, to be honest, it’s a hard day,” the former president said. “Being with all of you, quite frankly, makes things a little bit easier, it really does. So, thank you for allowing me to grieve with you.”