The 2025 election will pit the candidate of Tusk's Civic Coalition (KO), liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, against historian Karol Nawrocki, the conservative head of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance who is backed by PiS.

Poles will elect a new president on May 18, parliament speaker Szymon Holownia announced on Wednesday. The current head of state, Andrzej Duda, cannot run again after serving two terms under the backing of the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.

Polish ambassador to Moscow expresses hope that Warsaw's consular mission would return to St. Petersburg in 'better times,' says Foreign Ministry statement - Anadolu Ajansı

Poland closed its consulate building in St. Petersburg after 53 years. The decision follows Warsaw's order to close a Russian consulate in the Polish city of Poznan last year after accusing Moscow of sabotage plots.