India, June 2 -- Conservative EU-skeptic historian Karol Nawrocki has narrowly won Poland's presidential election.
In the second round of voting Sunday, the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) Party candidate won 50.9 per cent of the votes while Rafal Trzaskowski of the ruling Civic Coalition party received 49.1 per cent.
Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of capital Warsaw, had claimed victory after the first exit poll, while Nawrocki cautioned that the results were too close to call.
The first round of election, held last month, was extended to second round as neither of them could win the 50 percent of votes required to decide a clear winner.
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