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Floods disrupt election campaigns
Ongoing floods throughout Poland have led some presidential candidates to put off party conventions, though jar slaw Kaczynski is to go ahead with his rally this weekend.
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Olechowski – richest candidate
Independent candidate in the presidential elections, Andrzej Olechowski has published his financial accounts, revealing he has two houses, five apartments, two cars and millions accumulated on bank accounts.
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PM - I will not call state of emergency
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that there is no need to declare a state of emergency to fight the floods, thereby avoiding a delay to the presidential elections on June 20.
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Floods to delay presidential elections?
The continuing floods which have affected southern Poland may force the state authorities to postpone presidential elections scheduled for 20 June.
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Olechowski to withdraw from presidential race?
The Democratic Party’s candidate for president, Andrzej Olechowski might withdraw from the presidential race.
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Poll shows gender breakdown of presidential ballot
A poll released today breaks down votes for the presidential candidates by gender, with Civic Platform’s Bronislaw Komorowski commandeering the female vote, while Law and Justice condidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski is backed mainly by male supporters.
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Komorowski is still a leader in the presidential race
Bronislaw Komorowski is still a leader in the race to the presidential seat but his lead over Jaroslaw Kaczynski is shortening.
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Kaczynski gives first election campaign interview
“If I could turn back time, I would, but now we must look to the future,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said in his first interview of the presidential election campaign following the death of his twin brother, president Lech Kaczynski in the Smolensk air disaster.
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Kaczynski gets thumbs up from vetting court
The District Court in Warsaw has vetted Jaroslaw Kaczynski, ruling that his statement was true and valid.
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Komorowski passes vetting procedure
The District Court in Warsaw has vetted acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, ruling that his vetting statement was true and that he did not cooperate, knowingly, with communist secret services.
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Voters want to discuss health, taxes and Smolensk
Poles are divided on which issues should be raised in the presidential election campaign – Civic Platform voters want health care and taxes discussed; Law and Justice supporters are most concerned about the Smolensk air disaster.
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Gap closes in presidential race
A new poll by GfK Polonia confirms that the gap in support between front runner Bronislaw Komorowski and Jaroslaw Kaczynski continues to close, and the gap between the ruling Civic Platform and opposition Law and Justice is down to just nine percent.
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Lepper back in election after appeal
The National Electoral Commission has overturned an earlier ruling barring presidential candidate Andrzej Lepper standing in the June 20 elections
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10 presidential hopefuls make the cut
Ten candidates have successfully managed to raise over 100,000 signatures demanded by the State Electoral Commission to stand in the June presidential election.
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Elections 2010 - Factsheet
The first round of voting will take place on 20 June. If none of the candidates receives more than half of the valid ballots cast, then a second round will take place on 4 July.
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ELECTIONS ON POLISH RADIO
Komorowski wins, what next? 5.07.2010
With the prime minister’s close ally moving to the presidential palace, will the government carry out the promised reforms?
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
National Election Commission - SECOND ROUND - official results
2010-07-05 17:00
Bronisław Komorowski
53,01%
Jarosław Kaczyński
46,99%
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
ELECTIONS 2010 - FACTSHEET »
MAREK JUREK
Marek Jurek is head of the Christian conservative Polish Right, a splinter group founded by five defecting parliamentarians from Law and Justice.
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JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is leader of Law and Justice, a national-conservative party he founded with his twin brother, Lech.
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BRONISŁAW KOMOROWSKI
Bronislaw Komorowski is the current Speaker of Parliament and has been acting president of Poland since the death of Lech Kaczynski.
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JANUSZ KORWIN-MIKKE
Janusz Korwin-Mikke is a conservative libertarian politician and former leader of the Union of Real Politics.
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ANDRZEJ LEPPER
Andrzej Lepper is the leader of Self Defence, an agrarian populist party with a mainly rural electoral base.
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KORNEL MORAWIECKI
Kornel Morawiecki is head of Fighting Solidarity, founded in 1982 as a splinter group of the Solidarity trade union.
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GRZEGORZ NAPIERALSKI
Grzegorz Napieralski has been the leader of SLD since 2008 and replaced Jerzy Szmajdzinski as the party’s candidate after he died in the air crash.
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ANDRZEJ OLECHOWSKI
Andrzej Olechowski was born in Krakow in 1947 and studied economics at Warsaw School of Economics.
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WALDEMAR PAWLAK
Waldemar Pawlak is a former prime minister of Poland - the first time in 1992 for just 33 days - but again in 1993 -95.
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BOGUSŁAW ZIĘTEK
Boguslaw Zietek has been the leader of the left-wing August ’80 trade union and its political arm, the Polish Workers Party.
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