WARSAW — Polish voters delivered a surprise heard around the Continent in Sunday’s presidential elections.
Incumbent Bronisław Komorowski not only failed to win outright in the first round but lost narrowly to Andrzej Duda of the opposition Law and Justice party, according to an exit poll conducted by IPSOS for Poland’s three largest television channels.
The outcome raises a scenario that few in Warsaw or Brussels expected to consider seriously this early in Poland’s long 2015 election season: The nearly decade-long dominance of the country’s politics by the Civic Platform may be coming to an end. The party’s co-founder Komorowski, who polls …read more
Source: European Voice
