Final-day polls put Polish presidential runners neck-and-neck
Opinion polls published on Friday, the last day of campaigning before the run-off presidential election on Sunday, have pointed to a closely-contested race between the centrist Rafal Trzaskowski and the conservative Karol Nawrocki.
Trzaskowski, the incumbent mayor of Warsaw, is supported by the governing centrist coalition led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, while Nawrocki, the head of the Institute of National Remembrance, is backed by the main opposition party, the socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS).
According to a poll by the OGB researcher for the Wirtualna Polska online outlet, Trzaskowski would get 49.37 percent of the vote, while Nawrocki could count on 50.63 percent.
The OGB survey was carried out on a sample of 1,000 people on May 28 and 29.
The two candidates switched places in two other opinion polls.
An IBRiS survey for the private television broadcaster Polsat News put Trzaskowski in the lead on 49.1 percent, with Nawrocki trailing him on 48.1 percent. IBRiS also used a sample of 1,000 respondents, but ran the survey for three days, from May 27 to May 29.
Trzaskowski's lead was also evidenced in a Pollster survey for the tabloid Super Express, in which he garnered the support of 46 percent of respondents against Nawrocki's 41 percent.
Pollster surveyed 1,039 people on May 28 and 29.
On Sunday, Poles will elect their next president for a five-year term of office. (PAP)
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