Wrocław’s Rafał Dutkiewicz was voted the best city president in Poland in a ranking run by Newsweek Polska magazine.
Elzbieta Krajewska reports
Born in 1959, the former oppositionist turned local government official had more luck in business than in politics. An associate of the Civic Platform, now he may be a future player on the wider domestic political scene and is perceived as a possible rival to PM Donald Tusk himself.
His is not the only success story in the Newsweek ranking: of 106 Polish cities top places also went to presidents of Rzeszów, Krosno, Sopot, Elbląg and Świnoujście among others – not so long ago associated rather with sleepy backwaters than effervescing urban centres.
Warsaw was left out of the poll.