The win for Karol Nawrocki, who belongs to Poland's far-right Law and Justice party, was a surprise in an election when Rafal Trzaskowski, the pro-European Union, multilingual mayor of Warsaw, led ...

Karol Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian and amateur boxer, is new to politics and ran as an independent but was backed by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.