Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the Law and Justice presidential candidate, will not hold a debate with Civic Platform’s contender, and front runner, Bronislaw Komorowski before the first round of the election on June 20.

“Due to time pressure, heads of Komorowski and Kaczynski’s electoral campaign staffs will not meet to discuss a debate between the two candidates. We’re pretty busy at the moment but we will hold a meeting soon,” said Komorowski’s spokesperson Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska.

Kaczynski’s spokesman Pawel Poncyliusz, in turn, informed that the debate between the Law and Justice and Civic Platform candidates will be held after the first round of the election.

On Monday, however, Jaroslaw Kaczynski will participate in a televised debate hosted by the TVP public broadcaster, where he will face Democratic Left Alliance’s candidate Grzegorz Napieralski and the Polish Peasants’ Party’s Waldemar Pawlak.

Komorowski decided not to take part in it.

Both Komorowski and Kaczynski are well ahead of the eight other challengers in the election in opinion polls and are virtually guaranteed a meeting in the second round - scheduled to take place on July 4 - if the Civic Platform candidate does not get the necessary 50 percent on June 20. (mg/pg)

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