| | Exit Poll: Tusk Leads Election in Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | An exit poll by state television indicated that Donald Tusk, a pro-business candidate committed to stimulating entrepreneurship with low taxes and deregulation, was leading Lech Kaczynski, a former child actor hoping to preserve a strong safety net and Roman Catholic values in the homeland of the late Pope John Paul II. |
 | | Both Tusk and Kaczynski have their political roots in the anti-communist Solidarity movement of the 1980s and have pledged to fight corruption and the continued influence in politics of former communists. |
 | | Though 12 candidates were in the running, opinion polls showed only Tusk or Kaczynski with a shot at victory, meaning the outcome was certain to reinforce the decline of the former communists, who were soundly defeated in parliamentary elections two weeks earlier. |
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