Rafał Trzaskowski

Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski (born 17 January 1972) is a Polish politician and political scientist specializing in European studies who has served as Mayor of Warsaw since 22 November 2018. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (2009–2013), Minister of Administration and Digitization (2013–2014) as well as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2014–2015). He was elected a Member of the Polish Parliament in 2015. In November 2017, it was announced that he would be the joint candidate for the Mayor of Warsaw of the Civic Platform and the Modern political party in the 2018 Polish local elections. He went on to win the elections on 21 October 2018 in the first round and was elected Mayor of Warsaw after defeating his major rival Patryk Jaki of the Law and Justice party. He received 505,187 votes (56 %). In May 2020, Trzaskowski became the Civic Platform's candidate for the Presidency of Poland in the presidential election. He made it into the second round of the election but then went on to lose against the incumbent Andrzej Duda, receiving 10,018,263 votes or 48 % of the vote. In April 2024, he was reelected Mayor of Warsaw in the first round of voting, receiving 444,006 votes or 57 % of the vote. His major rivals in the election were Tobiasz Bocheński (PiS) and Magdalena Biejat (Left Together). In November 2024, he again became the Civic Coalition's candidate in the 2025 presidential election. In May 2025, Trzaskowski narrowly placed first in the preliminary round with 31 % of the votes. As a result, he advanced to the second round, with conservative independent candidate Karol Nawrocki. Trzaskowski lost the runoff to Nawrocki, receiving 49 % of the vote.