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No majority winner in Polish presidential elections
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 06 - 2010


Exit polls suggested that there would be no
majority winner in Sunday's Polish presidential election, requiring a
second round of voting, according to dpa.
None of the candidates got above 50 per cent support as needed to
win outright on Sunday.
Bronislaw Komorowski of the centre-right Civic Platform party got
nearly 46 per cent support, exit polls conducted by TVN 24 said.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski of the right-wing Law and Justice party received
33 per cent.
More than 52 per cent of Poles voted Sunday in the first-round
election to replace President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane
crash in April in Russia, according to exit polls by TVN 24.
There were 30.5 million eligible voters and some 25,000 polling
stations throughout the country in elections that had been slated for
autumn, before Kaczynski's death.
Komorowski had been leading with about 50 per cent of the vote in
pre-election opinion surveys but looked to have fall short of the
required majority.
He called on supporters to mobilize for the second round on July
4.
"There are moments in a politician's life where a person can feel
happy and complete ... when you feel the trust of millions of people
in Poland," Komorowski said at a rally after the ballots closed. "I
want to ask you from the bottom of my heart to mobilize and fight to
the end for a better future for Poland."
Komorowski congratulated the other eight candidates that had run
for the office, especially the left-wing party that had surprisingly
high results.
Grzegorz Napieralski, candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance,
had shot from some 2 or 3 per cent support at the start of the
campaign to 13 per cent in the exit polls. He told his supporters at
a rally that the exit polls showed his party was a "real alternative"
to the right-wing.
Napieralski said that the campaign was difficult amid two
tragedies: the plane crash in Russia and recent heavy flooding in
southern Poland that has left 22 dead since May. But he said the
left-wing managed to show they are capable of working hard and
mobilizing voters.
Komorowski was parliament speaker when he became acting president
on April 10 after the death of Lech Kaczynski in the plane crash in
Smolensk.
Komorowski had pledged during his campaign to unite Poland's
divided political scene around common goals and to catch the country
up to more prosperous members of the European Union, which it joined
in 2004.
Kaczynski, twin brother of the deceased president, spoke at a
rally and said the party needed to win, "for the good of Poland."
"The key to ultimate victory - because these elections are not
over - is our belief and our conviction that we can, and need to
win," Kaczynski said.
He is known as a eurosceptic who has spoken out harshly against
Russia. In the current elections, Kaczynski has toned down his
rhetoric and said he wanted to continue his brother's legacy if
chosen as president.
Kaczynski said the second round would be a decision between "two
visions of Poland," and that there were "significant differences"
between himself and Komorowski.


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