Win for populist-right candidate Nawrocki will further political deadlock that has hampered Tusk’s government
Polls have opened in Poland for the second round of the presidential election, with the two candidates offering radically different visions for the country locked in a dead heat.
The race pits the pro-European Warsaw mayor, Rafał Trzaskowski, backed by Donald Tusk’s politically-diverse governing coalition, against the historian and former amateur boxer Karol Nawrocki, endorsed by the populist-right Law and Justice (PiS) party that governed the country between 2015 and 2023.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/poland-goes-to-the-polls-in-second-round-of-close-fought-presidential-election
Author : Jakub Krupa in Warsaw
Publish date : 2025-06-01 05:00:00
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