Trzaskowski, who is married with two children, has vowed to campaign for women's rights and to legalise abortion in the predominantly Catholic country, which has a near-total ban on the procedure.

Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski said he had no regrets about his presidential campaign and that he gave it everything he had, speaking publicly for the first time since his narrow defeat to Karol ...

Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, won 50.89% of the vote, defeating the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski – long the ...

Trzaskowski’s rival, Karol Nawrocki, is a conservative historian with a past that would make notorious “Red Scare”-era Washington lawyer Roy Cohn proud.

Trzaskowski, 53, is Warsaw’s mayor and a close ally of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. A deputy leader of the pro-EU Civic Platform, he has been prominent in national politics for years.

SZCZECIN, Poland (Reuters) - Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, the Oxford-educated son of a jazz musician and frontrunner in Sunday's Polish presidential election, made friends across the European ...

Trzaskowski, from the ruling Civic Coalition (KO), got 31.36% of votes in the first round of presidential election on Sunday. The candidate backed by nationalist opposition party Law and Justice ...

Had Trzaskowski won an additional 0.9 percent of the votes, that would not have spelled final defeat for authoritarian populism. Other narrow victories in other places don’t either.

Mr. Trzaskowski has led in opinion polling, but the Law and Justice-backed Karol Nawrocki is second, with a far-right populist in third. Wojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, campaigning on May 18. He is backed by Civic Platform, the party of the centrist prime minister, Donald Tusk. Kacper Pempel/Reuters ...

Trzaskowski, who described himself as “pro-Semitic,” has in recent days come under attack in a report on Polish public television accusing him of failing to defend the national interest by not ...

Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, won 50.89% of the vote, defeating the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski – long the ...