WARSAW, May 12. /TASS/. Poland is bound to have a runoff presidential election, as none of the candidates running for presidency managed to 50% of the votes, which is necessary for an indisputable victory, in the first round on May 10, suggests the data published by the country's state election commission.
The incumbent President, Bronislaw Komorowski, received 33.77% votes. He is currently holding the second ranking, with Andrej Duda, a candidate from the opposition Law and Justice party, being ahead of him with 34.76% votes.
Western commentators say in this connection that Duda is a nationalist and "no fan of the European Union".
Self-nominated candidate Pawel Kukiz, who is a musician and a social activist, received a surprise 20.8% votes. The other eight candidates did not get over the symbolic 5% barrier.
The only female candidate, Magdalena Ogurek, who called for a bettering of relations with Russia, among other things, received 2.38% votes.
The far-right candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke got 3.26%.
The state election commission said the voter turnout at the polls was 48.96%.
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