Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski and radical right-wing challenger Karol Nawrocki drew tens of thousands of supporters to rival rallies in the capital on May 25, as both candidates sought ...

Rafał Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw and candidate of the ruling Civic Coalition (KO), has proposed holding a debate with opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki of the right-wing Law and Justice ...

Trzaskowski, backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, was defeated in Sunday's run-off election for the presidency by Nawrocki, who was representing the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party.

It follows a first round on May 18, in which Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski won more than 31% of the vote and Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian, earned nearly 30%.

Liberal Trzaskowski, who is backed by the ruling coalition, narrowly led the first round on May 18 with 31.4% of the vote. He will face conservative Nawrocki, who came in second with 29.5%.

The win for Karol Nawrocki, who belongs to Poland's far-right Law and Justice party, was a surprise in an election when Rafal Trzaskowski, the pro-European Union, multilingual mayor of Warsaw, led ...

This combination of photos shows Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, left, in Warsaw, Poland, on March 14, 2022 and Karol Nawrocki in Szeligi near Warsaw, Poland, on March 2, 2025.

Nawrocki, the candidate from the opposition Law and Justice party, won with 50.89% of the vote. Trzaskowski, a candidate from Poland’s ruling centrist Civic Coalition, trailed him by almost ...

Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and PiS-backed independent Karol Nawrocki have advanced to the runoff of the Polish presidential election, after a closely fought race on Sunday, latest exit polls show.

ANALYSIS: The newly elected president’s Aug. 6 inauguration crowns a fiercely contested election whose outcome reverberates ...

The race is on for Poland’s new president, with the two candidates neck-and-neck ahead of an election on June 1 that will have an impact well beyond the country’s borders. Sunday’s first round of the ...

Nawrocki won the election with 50.89 percent of the votes, dealing a major set-back for Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a close ally of Trzaskowski, and boosts the hope of the conservative Law and ...