PM Tusk is Frontrunner for Polish President

Poland’s prime minister is currently the favourite candidate to win the first round of this year’s presidential election in the country, according to a poll by GfK Polonia published in Rzeczpospolita. 27 per cent of respondents would vote for Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform (PO) in the next ballot.

Incumbent president Lech Kaczynski of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) is second with 16 per cent, followed by independent Andrzej Olechowski with 10 per cent. Support is much lower for Right of the Republic (PR) leader Marek Jurek, Self-Defence of the Polish Republic (SRP) leader Andrzej Lepper, current deputy prime minister and economy minister Waldemar Pawlak, and left-wing candidate Tomasz Nalecz.

In the October 2005 presidential election, Kaczynski defeated Tusk in a run-off with 54.04 per cent of the vote.

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