Although the presidency in Poland is largely ceremonial, the office holds the power to veto legislation — a crucial check in a parliament where Tusk’s governing coalition lacks the numbers to override a veto.

Warsaw’s pro-EU mayor Rafal Trzaskowski faces nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Poles elect their president on Sunday in the biggest test yet of whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-European agenda is going to prevail against the surge of the country’s nationalist forces.

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Both of the candidates in Sunday's runoff have said they will seek the best possible relationship with the Trump administration while in office, particularly in the face of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, leads nationalist Karol Nawrocki in popularity ahead of Sunday's second round of the presidential election, a poll by Opinia24 for private broadcaster TVN 24 showed on Thursday.

Poles are preparing to vote in the second round of a presidential election that will impact Europe's future direction. The liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski is up against conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki.

As Poland prepares to go to the polls in the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, filmmaker and activist Bartosz Staszewski, a leading figure in the country's LGBT+ movement, looks