Polish Ruling-Party Candidate Pushes Back Against Far Right
Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who narrowly won the first round of Poland's presidential election, is pushing back against the far right ahead of his runoff with opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki on June 1.
Trzaskowski, a party ally of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, faced off over Ukraine in a YouTube debate on Saturday with far-right leader Slawomir Mentzen, whose supporters are in play for the two runoff candidates.
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