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Pro-EU candidate Rafał Trzaskowski was inching towards winning Poland’s presidential run-off vote on Sunday after exit polls gave him a razor-thin lead over his rightwing opponent.
An Ipsos exit poll showed Trzaskowski, the Warsaw mayor representing Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centre-right Civic Platform party, winning 50.3 per cent of votes against 49.7 per cent for Karol Nawrocki, a historian standing for the nationalist opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party.
The outcome of the run-off, if confirmed by final results, would allow Tusk to proceed with his reform agenda. But it would deal another blow to Donald Trump’s Maga movement abroad, following election defeats for rightwing politicians aligned with the US president in Canada, Australia and Romania.
The electoral commission says it hopes final results will be announced on Monday morning or early afternoon.
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