Rafal Trzaskowski is backed by the governing Civic Coalition party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a former European Council president. He was elected mayor of Warsaw in 2018 and re-elected in 2024.

The front-runner for the Polish presidency, Warsaw's Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, is an avowed europhile pledging to relax abortion laws and protect LGBTQ rights. On LGBTQ rights, another hot-button ...

A man rides a bicycle past presidential campaign posters for liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski on Friday May 30, 2025, in Dziekanow Lesny , near Warsaw Poland. Credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski ...

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.

Poland holds a presidential election run-off on Sunday, with the ruling party's candidate, liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, facing nationalist Karol Nawrocki, in a vote crucial for the ...

Centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, running neck-and-neck with his nationalist rival ahead of Poland's presidential runoff, is an avowed Europhile pledging to relax abortion laws and protect ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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 ...

Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski won a narrow victory in Poland's presidential election, but a second-round run-off with conservative historian Karol Nawrocki will be required to decide ...

If Trzaskowski wins, she hopes she can persuade at least her younger son to stay in Poland. Kalan reported from Warsaw. At WWII anniversary ceremony in Poland, an 80-year-old issue lingers ...

The candidate from Poland's ruling Civic Coalition (KO), Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, leads nationalist Karol Nawrocki in popularity ahead of Sunday's second round of the presidential election ...

WARSAW — Poland’s presidential election, widely viewed as the most important since the end of Communist rule in 1989, ... Rafal Trzaskowski. ...

Rafal Trzaskowski, centrist mayor of Warsaw, speaks during a campaign rally ahead of Poland’s June 1, 2025 presidential runoff. Trzaskowski, a pro-European polyglot backed by Prime Minister ...