Lech Wałęsa gives support for Tusk while as gap narrows before Sunday

Tusk met yesterday in Kraków with Lech Wałęsa. "I truly believe that in our present situation Donald Tusk will be a better president than Kaczyński," said Wałęsa. Kaczyński, in turn, received the official support of a former Solidarność leader Marian Krzaklewski, who said, "I will vote for Lech Kaczyński because he was the one who presented an unambiguous vision of a solidarity country." Both candidates also visited the tomb of Józef Piłsudski, thus trying to mobilize the patriotic electorate. According to one of the latest election polls, which was conducted on Wednesday by Gazeta Wyborcza, Tusk has the support of 52% of the public, and Lech Kaczyński is only 4 percentage points behind him, with 48% support. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.p. 1,2, Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4-5) A.F.