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The nationalist presidential candidates Slawomir Mentzen and Grzegorz Braun won a combined total of almost 21 per cent of the vote. View on euronews
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Nationalism remains the defining matter of European politics as these elections have presented referendums on the populist movements gaining traction in the Old World.
right-wing parties had mixed fortunes in the weekend's elections elsewhere in Europe, making gains in Portugal's parliament but losing out in the first round of Poland's presidential ballot.
If this past weekend in European politics is an indicator of anything, it's that the "Trump effect" is real, and its reverberations are unpredictable.