If presidential elections took place in April, the winner would be Prime Minister Donald Tusk, says an opinion poll conducted by the Institute Homo Homini.
According to the poll, 26 percent would support Tusk and 16 percent would vote for President Lech Kaczynski. The third most wanted for the post of the head of state would be Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the former PM and Foreign Minister, with 11 percent of votes.
Tomasz Lis, a popular journalist and TV presenter, would gain 9 percent and Radoslaw Sikorski, the Foreign Minister – 8 percent.
Both Bronislaw Komorowski, the Parliament speaker, and Rafal Dutkiewicz, the mayor of Wroclaw, would take the sixth position in the presidential race, with the support of 6 percent of Poles.
The numbers show that former president Lech Walesa would not have a chance to become the head of state again, being supported by only 2 percent of respondents. Similarly, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the former PM and a very popular politician, with only 1 percent of votes would certainly lose the race.
PM Donald Tusk has not announced yet if he will take part in presidential elections in 2010. Neither has Lech Kaczynski decided whether he will strive for re-election.
Yet it seems inevitable that the Polish voters will have to choose between Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski in the coming presidential elections, claim political scientists.
The poll was conducted on 6 April among on a sample of 1,000 (mg/pg)