The prize - the Presidential Palace, WarsawPresidential candidate Bronislaw Komorowski has thanked Nobel Prize winning poetess Wislawa Szymborska for her support in the June 20 presidential elections.
“I am delighted and proud to have the support of two Nobel Prize winners. The other one is Lech Wałęsa,” Mr Komorowski, who is currently on a two--day trip to Moscow for Victory day celebrations, told journalists.
He thanked all the 770, 000 people who placed their signatures of support on his electoral lists.
“I take them all as an expression of support for my vision of presidency which is to unite Poles, in contrast to a presidency of constant conflict and struggle,” he said.
Among those who voiced their support for Komorowski are Poland’s first Solidarity prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and film director Andrzej Wajda.
Meanwhile, Komorowski‘s main challenger in the race for the Presidential Palace, former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski boasted 1.7 million signatures in support of his candidacy.
Ludwig Dorn, who was planning to stand in the presidential elections when they were originally scheduled for the autumn before the death of President Kaczynski in the April 10 Smolensk air disaster, has said he will be supporting Jaroslaw Kaczynski. The support will be officially declared Saturday at a meeting of Dorn’s Polska Plus party. A spokesman for the party, Jaroslaw Sellin, said it was important that conservative centre-right politicians unite behind the Kaczynski candidacy.
An opinion poll published Friday by TNS OBOP puts Komorowski on 50 percent and Kaczynski trailing on 36 percent of the vote. The poll shows support for the late Lech Kaczynski’s twin brother increasing slightly on the previous OBOP poll where the acting president had 55 percent support to Kaczynski’s 32 percent.
Leader of the Democratic Left Alliance Grzegorz Napieralski and deputy prime minister Waldemar Pawlak (PSL) are on four percent support. Two percent of respondents gave their support to Andrzej Olechowski and Andrzej Lepper (Self Defense). Marek Jurek and Janusz Korwin-Mikke are on one percent. (mk/pg)