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Polish president runner-up in first round vote: exit poll

WARSAW, May 10 (Reuters) - Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski was pushed into a surprise second place spot by a conservative challenger in Sunday's presidential election, and must now face him in a run-off on May 24, an exit poll showed.
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No official results from the voting have been released. The exit poll, by Ipsos, put Komorowski on 32.2 percent of the vote, behind conservative Andrzej Duda on 34.8 percent.

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Pawel Kukiz, a rock musician, was third on 20.3 percent, the exit poll showed. Opinion polls before the vote had shown Komorowski with a comfortable lead. (Reporting by Marcin Goclowski, Pawel Florkiewicz and Pawel Sobczak; Editing by Christian Lowe)

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