Poland to hold second round of presidential election
WARSAW. June 20. KAZINFORM Bronislaw Komorowski, the candidate of Poland's ruling Civic Platform party (PO), and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the conservative Law and Justice Party (PIS) will contend in a second round of presidential election, exit polls showed on Sunday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
Komorowski, the speaker of Poland's lower house of parliament and acting president, won 45.7 percent of votes, and his main rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, received 33.2 percent. Democratic Left Alliance's candidate Grzegorz Napieralski received 13.4 percent of votes, according to an exit poll for TVN television.
Since no one secured an outright victory by garnering over 50 percent of the vote, a runoff between the two top contenders will be held in two weeks, on July 4. The other eight candidates trailed far behind and are now eliminated from the contest; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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