Anne Applebaum: “A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.”

“Lee Jae-myung of the center-left Democratic Party won the South Korean presidential election on Wednesday, riding a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his People Power Party after months of political turmoil,” the New York Times reports.

“South Koreans are set to finally choose a new president after the nation’s worst constitutional crisis in decades,” Bloomberg reports. “The June 3 election to replace ousted conservative leader Yoon Suk Yeol offers to be a potential turning point that either brings stability to the political realm

“Right-wing candidate Karol Nawrocki is leading centrist Rafał Trzaskowski by 51 percent to 49 percent in Poland’s presidential election, according to a final exit poll released early Monday morning,” Politico reports. “The country’s electoral commission says final results of the vote count will be

“Poland’s knife-edge presidential race has become the latest battleground for the global populist right, with Donald Trump’s allies warning that defeat in Warsaw could sap Trumpist momentum across Europe after recent election losses to moderates in Romania and Canada,” the Financial Times reports.