CNN
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Since winning power back from the hands of his populist rivals a year and a half ago, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has faced one very stubborn roadblock to his plans: the country’s president.
That could change after a pivotal presidential election, which begins with a first round of voting Sunday.
Rafał Trzaskowski, the mayor of capital city Warsaw who is closely aligned with Tusk’s center-left ruling party, is leading opinion polling in the race to replace Andrzej Duda, who has served two terms and is ineligible to stand again.
His main challenger is Karol Nawrocki, an ally of US President Donald Trump, who like Duda before…
