Komorowski expected to win in Poland
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POLES voted yesterday in presidential elections after a lackluster campaign focused on national security and social issues, with incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski expected to win, but not without a struggle.
The 62-year-old historian, who was elected in 2010 and is close to the governing centrist Civic Platform (PO) party, appears unlikely to secure a second five-year term without a run-off vote on May 24.
While Komorowski has focused on the national security challenges Warsaw faces amid heightened tensions with Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, analysts say his rivals are trying to appeal to disenchanted voters by pledging to lower the retirement age and to bring taxes down.
Komorowski urged Poles to get out to the ballot box as he voted yesterday in central Warsaw.
Komorowski has lost considerable steam in opinion polls — from almost 50 percent support a few months ago to less than 40 percent days before the ballot — while main rival Andrzej Duda is just shy of 30 percent backing.
Warsaw construction worker Slawomir said his ballot went to Duda, a 42-year-old lawyer running for the opposition conservative Law and Justice.
“I’d rather see the president occupy himself with the everyday problems of average Poles. Instead all the talk is about security and the Russians out to get us,” the 47-year-old said.
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