WARSAW, Poland — Elections in Poland were prolonged Sunday when a first round of voting produced no immediate successor to Lech Kaczyn ski, the president killed more than two months ago in a plane crash.
Results show the interim president and parliament speaker, Bronislaw Komo rowski, is leading Kaczyn ski’s identical twin, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. But Komo rowski appeared to fall short of the 50 percent needed for an outright win.
The two leaders must now go head-to-head in a runoff vote July 4, without eight other candidates who ran Sunday.
Kaczynski, 61, addressing supporters Sunday eve ning, made a rare reference to the plane crash that killed his brother. He said, “It’s an election which is the result of a huge catastrophe, a huge misfortune, a huge tragedy.” The Associated Press
