France, May 18 -- Pro-EU Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski was tipped to narrowly win the first round of Poland's presidential election on Sunday and face a runoff against nationalist Karol Nawrocki on June 1, an exit poll showed.
Trzaskowski was expected to get 30.8 percent of the vote and historian Nawrocki 29.1 percent, according to an Ipsos poll, with neither candidate passing the 50 percent threshold required to win in the first round.
Preliminary results are expected early Monday.
An overall victory for Trzaskowski would be a major boost for the centrist government led by former European Union leader Donald Tusk, which has been at loggerheads with the current nationalist president.
A Nawrocki win would likely extend the political d...
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