Liberal mayor leads Polish presidential election, exit polls show
Poland is heading for a run-off presidential vote in two weeks' time after a pro-European Union centrist candidate edged into the lead ahead of a nationalist, conservative Eurosceptic.
Exit polls put Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw who is backed by Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, less than two points ahead of Karol Nawrocki, a historian and former boxer backed by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party.
A significant lead for Trzaskowski failed to materialise — after opinion polls had put him ahead by up to six points —setting the stage for intense campaigning over the direction of Polish politics.
The projected result appears to represent the smallest vote share for the two main parties since the 2005 presidential election, which firmly split
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