Karol Nawrocki, who was supported by the right-wing conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), has been elected President of Poland by a wafer-thin margin with 50.9 percent of the vote, according to projections from Monday morning. The defeated candidate of the ruling Civic Coalition, Rafal Trzaskowski, received 370,000 fewer votes after 99.93% of polling stations had been counted. Voter turnout was 71.7 percent – a good three percentage points higher than in the previous election five years ago; the official final result is to be announced later today. If the projections are confirmed, this will be the second time in Poland’s recent history that the PiS has succeeded in winning the highest office in the state with a candidate who was largely unknown six months ago. In 2015, it won with Andrzej Duda, who was unknown at the time.