Having taken 41.2 percent of the vote according to the latest tally, Civic Platform (PO) presidential candidate Bronisław Komorowski maintained a less than hoped for lead over his main opponent, Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński. The two will go head-to-head again on July 4, but in the meantime the challenge for both will be winning over the 14 percent of the electorate who voted for Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) leader Grzegorz Napieralski.

Mr Komorowski's campaign HQ has acknowledged shortcomings in the lead up to the first round.

“It was a short campaign, we lacked a driving force,” Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, spokesperson for Bronisław Komorowski, told TVN24. She explained that the campaign's intention now is to fight for Mr Napieralski's electorate, adding that PO's message is closer to his than PiS's.

“It is important to meet Napieralski, it is important to reach his electorate,” Ms Kidawa-Błońska said. However, she did not specify when the two politicians would meet.

Grzegorz Napieralski said on Monday that he would meet both candidates before lending his support in the second round. Analysts note, however, that it is unlikely that Mr Napieralski will back Mr Kaczyński because their two parties differ on many issues.

Mr Komorowski already has the support of former President and Nobel laureate Lech Wałęsa as well as former PM and 2005 SLD candidate Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.

Sejm Speaker Bronisław Komorowski has served as acting president since the April 10 plane crash which killed incumbent President Lech Kaczyński, twin brother of the current PiS candidate.