Tusk still on top

Donald Tusk, candidate from the center-right party Civic Platform (PO), is maintaining his lead over Law and Justice (PiS) candidate Lech Kaczyński, his closest rival in the race to become President of Poland.

The survey, conducted by pollster CBOS between September 14-18 with a sampling of 1,028 people, registered support of 44 percent for Tusk and 26 percent for Kaczyński.

Self-Defense (SO) leader Andrzej Lepper garnered 13 percent, while the candidate from the leftist Social Democracy of Poland (SDPL), Marek Borowski, managed seven percent support and Maciej Giertych, the League of Polish Families' candidate, scored just one percent.

If no one receives 50 percent of the vote after the first round of voting on October 9, there will be a runoff between the two highest scoring candidates. The poll found that in such a scenario, Tusk would beat Kaczyński 52 to 40 percent.