Polish Parties Pick Candidates as Presidential Race Starts
- Opposition Law & Justice party choses historian as candidate
- Premier Tusk’s party picked Warsaw’s mayor in separate primary
Karol Nawrocki, in Warsaw.
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Poland’s biggest opposition party Law & Justice selected historian Karol Nawrocki to run in next year’s presidential election in a bid to hold on to the role as a counterweight to Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government.
Nawrocki, 41, a relatively little-known figure who has been leading the state Institute of National Remembrance, will compete against Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. The pro-European Union Civic Platform picked Trzaskowski in a separate primary Saturday.