Poland, Presidential Race
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An exit poll shows that the liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, and a conservative historian, Karol Nawrocki, are the front-runners in a presidential election in Poland on Sunday.
Data after counting votes from 100% of polling stations showed that Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski of the ruling party won 31.36%, while the director of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland Karol Nawrocki, who is supported by the opposition PiS party, won 29.54%.
Rafal Trzaskowski, the Warsaw mayor, appeared to have won the first round of the election. Prime Minister Donald Tusk is hoping his eventual victory will help push through a liberal agenda.
Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and a conservative historian, Karol Nawrocki, emerged as the front-runners in Poland’s presidential election Sunday, according to an exit poll, putting them on track to face off in a second round in two weeks.
IT WAS NO surprise that Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, finished ahead of Karol Nawrocki, the candidate backed by the main hard-right opposition party, in the first round of the country’s presidential elections on May 18th.
Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski won a narrow victory in Poland's presidential election, according to an exit poll, but a second-round run-off with conservative historian Karol Nawrocki will be required in two weeks' time to decide the country's next president.
Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, a member of the Civic Coalition, received 31.36% of the votes in the first round of Poland's presidential election. His opponent, Karol Nawrocki from the Law and Justice party,
Since winning power back from the hands of his populist rivals a year and a half ago, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has faced one very stubborn roadblock to his plans: the country’s president.
Polish officials have seized 5 metric tons of tyres for Boeing passenger planes that were due to transit through Belarus and Russia, in what Poland's tax and customs office on Monday said constituted a breach of European sanctions.