SLD leader Grzegorz Napieralski (right) will not be recommending a vote for either candidate in Sunday’s second round of presidential elections, it was decided after a meeting of the party’s council yesterday evening.

"This decision I will leave to my electorate," Napieralski, who came third in the first round of elections on June 20 with almost 14 percent of the vote, said after the three hour meeting of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) ruling executive.

SLD MP Tadeusz Iwiński told journalists the party was not simply a "depository of 2 million 300 thousand votes”. […] Our voters are very rational and after extensive consultations, in principle, everyone [in the party] called for a similar position.”

Longin Pastusiak deputy head of the SLD, admitted that there were some at the meeting who wanted to support Civic Platform candidate and acting president Bronislaw Komorowski - thought to be the less conservative of the two candidates on many social issues - “but there were very few…,” he said.

Pastusiak, for one, however, said he would be voting for Komorowski, indicating that many MPs and party members would be indicating how they would be voting on July 4 on an individual basis. “I choose the lesser of the two evils,” he concluded. (pg)

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