We won!” exclaimed Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal mayor, as initial exit polls showed him edging ahead of his opponent, Karol Nawrocki, 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, in Poland’s presidential election on June 1,

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's pro-European orientation.

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