Voters taken with Tusk

Civic Platform's (PO) center-right liberal candidate received 37 percent support in a recent poll to stand a clear 16 points ahead of his closet rival, Lech Kaczyński from Law and Justice (PiS).

The latest figures from OBOP pollsters show the star of independent candidate and Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, who is being backed by the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), is on the wane. He received 18-percent support, down from his

25-percent high recorded earlier in August. The first round of the presidential election takes place on October 9.

The OBOP agency carried out its survey of 1,000 people on August 24-25. (Reuters)