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Presidential campaign kicks off in Poland, 12.05.2010
Almost a month after the Smolensk air crash, which claimed the lives of 96 people, including President Lech Kaczyński and his wife, Maria, a new presidential campaign is off the ground with just a little over a month to go before the elections. What kind of a campaign is Poland in for?
Kaczynski gains ground on Komorowski, 11.05.2010
Less than six weeks before Poles elect a new president, opinion surveys show that the gap between the two main contenders is narrowing.
List of hopefuls, 7.05.2010
The State Electoral Commission has sealed the list of candidates for the June scheduled presidential elections.
Challenges facing Civic Platform
While polls have placed Civic Platform’s presidential candidate, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, ahead in the early election campaign, despite the assumption that Law and Justice candidate, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, might garner the sympathy vote following the tragic death of his twin, former President Lech Kaczynski.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski stands for election, 26.04.2010
Jaroslaw Kaczynski will replace his identical twin brother, the late Lech Kaczynski - who perished in the April 10 Smolensk air disaster - in presidential elections in Poland.
Poles to elect a new president on 20 June, 21.04.2010
Analysts agree that in the wake of the national tragedy the election campaign will be unlike anything any democracy has gone through.
Election date to be announced April 21, 14.04.2010
Acting president Bronislaw Komorowski said, Wednesday, that the revised date for Poland’s presidential election will be announced on April 21.
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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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