Voters face landmark election

2nd July 2010

Poles will vote on Sunday to choose their next president following a tight election campaign that set the bereaved brother of the late president up against the unassuming candidate of the governing party.

As the hours ticked down to the end of campaigning on Friday night, the two candidates, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Bronislaw Komorowski, made whistle-stop tours in an effort to drum up last minute support amongst undecided voters.

Opinion polls showed that Mr Kaczynski, the twin of former president Lech Kaczynski, and leader of the Law and Justice party, trailed his rival by around 10 percent, making Mr Komorowski favourite to become Poland’s next head of state.

But the Law and Justi ...