June presidential poll for Poland

Poland will hold a presidential poll on June 20 to elect a successor to Lech Kaczynski who died in a plane crash in Russia earlier this month.

Bronislaw Komorowski, the country's parliamentary speaker and acting president, announced the widely-expected poll date on Wednesday.

A number of opinion polls released this week have given Komorowski - a member of the prime minister's Civic Platform party - a wide lead over other candidates in the election.

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