Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski’s thin victory in the first round of Poland’s presidential election raises concerns about his ability to be elected head of state in the decisive second round of voting on June 1. The candidate of the center-right Civic Coalition scored only a 1.8-percentage-point win over Karol Nawrocki of the right-wing Law and Justice party, narrower than the 5-percentage-point win predicted by recent public opinion polls, in an election that brought out a record-high two-thirds of eligible voters. Equally concerning for the Civic Coalition are the results of two other right-wing candidates, whose results gave that end of the political spectrum nearly 51% of the total vote. Trzaskowski and three other left-wing candidates together garnered just over 45%.
The Decisive Round 2 | German Marshall Fund of the United States
