Orbán and Le Pen cheer Karol Nawrocki’s election as Polish president

Karol Nawrocki with supporters in Warsaw. He won Sunday’s election with 50.89% of the vote. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Far-right leaders in Europe have welcomed the victory of the nationalist opposition candidate, Karol Nawrocki, in Poland’s presidential elections, a result that deals a huge blow to the centre-right prime minister Donald Tusk’s reform and pro-EU agenda.

Nawrocki, a conservative historian and former amateur boxer, won Sunday’s election with 50.89% of the vote, final figures showed on Monday, ahead of his rival, Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal Warsaw mayor and an ally of Tusk, who secured 49.11%.