Poland President Faces Runoff as Upstart Rivals Lure Voters

Poland’s presidential election will probably come down to a runoff after a campaign in which incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski struggled to prevent upstart challengers from chipping away at his support.

Backing for Komorowski, the ruling Civic Platform party’s candidate, fell 4 percentage points to 35 percent in a May 6-7 poll by TNS Polska for TVP Info, released on Friday. That’s short of the 50 percent needed for an outright victory on Sunday. Support for his closest challenger, Andrzej Duda of the opposition Law and Justice party, gained 2 percentage points to 27 percent. Pawel Kukiz, a former punk band frontman running as an independent, was third with 15 percent.