WARSAW (Sputnik) — Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski was not reelected in the first round of elections, Andrzej Duda will be his opponent in the second round, the exit polls showed on Sunday.
Duda, a candidate from the biggest opposition party in Poland, Law and Justice, won 34.76 percent of the votes in all constituencies, the commission said. The acting president received 33.77 percent of the votes, taking the second place in the first round of the election.
Eleven candidates took part in the presidential race in Poland. An independent candidate Pawel Kukiz secured the third place, getting 20.8 percent of the votes, according to the commission. Conservative liberal Janusz Korwin-Mikke followed him with 3.26 percent and Magdalena Ogorek won 2.38 percent of the votes. All the other candidates received less than 2 percent.
The first round of the election carried out on May 10, saw a 49-percent voter turnout.
Duda and Komorowski will contest for the president office in the second round of the election that will take place on May 24.
