POLAND ' S ACTING PRESIDENT APPEARS TO CLAIM A NARROW VICTORY
Bronislaw Komorowski
Final results from the election commission are not expected until Monday. With the official tally of votes incomplete  some of Kaczynski's supporters expressed hope that his concession might have been premature. But Polish public television projected that Komorowski  the governing party's candidate and the speaker of the lower house of Parliament  would win with 53.1 percent of the vote  with Kaczynski  a former prime minister  at 46.9 percent.
 Speaking before Kaczynski's concession speech  Komorowski stopped short of claiming an outright victory. "Tonight we open a small bottle of champagne. For a bigger one  we will have to wait until tomorrow " Komorowski  58  a father of five  told supporters in central Warsaw.
 Komorowski said he wanted to "create unity " making reference to the plane crash that claimed the life of his predecessor  by calling the race "an unusual campaign  a difficult campaign held in the shadow of catastrophe."
 Though Komorowski led by as much as 20 percentage points in polls after Kaczynski's twin announced his candidacy in April  the election ended much closer to even.
 Andrzej Rychard  a sociologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw  said that Komorowski had positioned himself less as an independent candidate and more as a strong supporter of government policies  making him susceptible to blame for voter dissatisfaction. "He presented himself more as a prime minister than as a presidential candidate " Rychard said.
 Komorowski  who is often overshadowed by the popular prime minister  Tusk  did not help himself during the campaign with a number of verbal gaffes  including confusing the budget deficit with the national debt and saying he wanted to pull troops out of the NATO alliance when he meant to say Afghanistan.
 "He's the opposite of the person who usually becomes president  with a strong point of view and a lot of charisma " said Wiktor Swietlik  a political analyst and columnist for the newspaper Polska The Times who is working on a book about Komorowski. "Not everybody has to be like Churchill  Roosevelt or de Gaulle."
Final results from the election commission are not expected until Monday. With the official tally of votes incomplete  some of Kaczynski's supporters expressed hope that his concession might have been premature. But Polish public television projected that Komorowski  the governing party's candidate and the speaker of the lower house of Parliament  would win with 53.1 percent of the vote  with Kaczynski  a former prime minister  at 46.9 percent.
 Speaking before Kaczynski's concession speech  [TGT] stopped short of claiming an outright victory. "Tonight we open a small bottle of champagne. For a bigger one  we will have to wait until tomorrow " Komorowski  58  a father of five  told supporters in central Warsaw.
 [TGT] said [TGT] wanted to "create unity " making reference to the plane crash that claimed the life of [TGT] predecessor  by calling the race "an unusual campaign  a difficult campaign held in the shadow of catastrophe."
 Though [TGT] led by as much as 20 percentage points in polls after Kaczynski's twin announced [TGT] candidacy in April  the election ended much closer to even.
 Andrzej Rychard  a sociologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw  said that [TGT] had positioned [TGT] less as an independent candidate and more as a strong supporter of government policies  making [TGT] susceptible to blame for voter dissatisfaction. "[TGT] presented [TGT] more as a prime minister than as a presidential candidate " Rychard said.
 Komorowski  who is often overshadowed by the popular prime minister  Tusk  did not help himself during the campaign with a number of verbal gaffes  including confusing the budget deficit with the national debt and saying he wanted to pull troops out of the NATO alliance when he meant to say Afghanistan.
 "He's the opposite of the person who usually becomes president  with a strong point of view and a lot of charisma " said Wiktor Swietlik  a political analyst and columnist for the newspaper Polska The Times who is working on a book about [TGT]. "Not everybody has to be like Churchill  Roosevelt or de Gaulle."