Poland goes to the polls in second round of close-fought presidential election

Win for populist-right candidate Nawrocki will further political deadlock that has hampered Tusk's government

Polls have opened in Poland for the second round of the presidential election, with the two candidates offering radically different visions for the country locked in a dead heat.

The race pits the pro-European Warsaw mayor, Rafa Trzaskowski, backed by Donald Tusk's politically-diverse governing coalition, against the historian and former amateur boxer Karol Nawrocki, endorsed by the populist-right Law and Justice (PiS) party that governed the country between 2015 and 2023.