Warsaw [Poland], May 19: Voters in Poland will head to a run-off election on June 1 to choose their next president, early exit polls showed on Sunday.
Initial forecasts put Warsaw Mayor Rafat Trzaskowski, representing Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition, narrowly ahead with 30.8% of the vote.
Karol Nawrocki, a historian and political outsider running as an independent with backing from the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, received 29.1%. As neither of them received the necessary absolute majority at the first attempt, a second round of voting is necessary. Stawomir Mentzen, candidate for the radical right-wing Confederation party, came in third with 15.4%.
According to forecasts, voter turnout was 66.8%. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
