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Polish Exit Polls Show Komorowski, Kaczynski Headed for Presidential Runoff

   VOA News 20 June 2010

Photo: AP

   Photographers  take  pictures of a voter with his daughter casting her
   family's ballots in a voting station in Warsaw, Sunday, June 20, 2010.

   Exit  polls show interim Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski winning
   Sunday's  presidential  election  to  find  a  successor  to  the late
   President  Lech  Kaczynski,  who  died  April  10  in a plane crash in
   western Russia.
   The  polls give Mr. Komorowski 41 percent of the vote, with 36 percent
   for  Jaroslaw  Kaczynski, the late president's twin brother.  Neither
   is expected to win the 50 percent needed to avoid a July 4 runoff.
   Eight  other  candidates  who were on the ballot trailed far behind in
   the voting, and have been eliminated from participation.
   Mr.  Komorowski  has  been  acting president since the disaster. He is
   leader of the moderate ruling Civic Platform Party, which supports the
   European Union.
   Mr.  Kaczynski,  like  his  dead brother, has long been hostile to the
   European  Union  and openly suspicious of Poland's historical enemies,
   particularly Germany and Russia.
   More  than  30  million  Poles  were eligible to vote Sunday.  Polish
   radio placed voter turnout at 42 percent.
   The  April  plane  crash  near  Smolenski,  Russia,  killed  not  only
   President Kaczynski but his wife and 95 others, including high-ranking
   Polish  civilian  and  military  leaders.   They  were  heading  to a
   memorial  service  for 22,000 Polish officers killed by the Soviets in
   the early stages of World War II.
   Some information for this report provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

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