Komorowski on top

23rd April 2010

Bronislaw Komorowski, Poland’s acting head of state, would win June’s presidential elections with ease, according to opinion polls.

As the country prepares for snap elections, called by Mr Komorowski in the wake of the Smolensk disaster, on June 20, the stand-in president remains a popular choice with the voters.

A TNS OBOP poll published in the newspaper Fakt showed that Mr Komorowski, who represents Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform (PO) party, would get 55 per cent of the vote if he were to compete with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the late president Lech Kaczynski.

The poll will go some way to soothe PO fears that Mr Kaczynski and his party, Law and Justice (PiS), mi ...