Mr Komorowski, by contrast, is more popular than his party, Civic Platform, which leads the governing coalition.
The other centre-right outfit, Civic Platform, gains support mainly among well-educated, better-off, urban voters.
If the Civic Platform continues to move ahead, further participation in presidential elections is a possibility.
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The ruling Civic Platform party and the opposition both value a strong relationship with Washington.
Civic Platform's poll ratings have dipped a bit, mainly to the benefit of the Democratic Left.
Donald Tusk, Civic Platform's pro-European Union leader, began talking to other parties about forming a coalition.
Many support Civic Platform's coalition partner, the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL), which controls the labour and agriculture ministries.
Civic Platform no doubt exists at the pleasure of Putin, forcing Prokhorov to temper short-term ambitions and instead play realpolitik.
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Civic Platform will also sweep in political activists drawn throughout the nation.
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The real reason for the Polish president's delay is a desire to annoy the government led by Donald Tusk's Civic Platform party.
Yet Civic Platform is doing well, scoring 44% in the latest poll.
It wants to simplify the tax system, while criticising Civic Platform's plans for a 15% flat tax, with some justice, as gimmicky and unfair.
Now the main ruling party, Civic Platform, is enjoying the sight of television bosses installed by the former Law and Justice government being fired.
Before the parliamentary vote he was trailing some way behind Civic Platform's man, Donald Tusk, but his party's strong finish has given him a lift.
In Poland's election, the Civic Platform party trounced the ruling Law and Justice party of the prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who will now step down.
Perhaps Law and Justice will belatedly team up with Civic Platform.
Civic Platform has promoted a single rate of 15% for value-added tax and income tax, wants to shrink government and favours faster privatisation of the state's remaining assets.
Now others from Civic Platform's ragged ranks may follow her.
Mr Tusk wants to unseat Mr Kaczynski as part of a long-term plan to break up Law and Justice and absorb bits of it into his own Civic Platform party.
Worries over the government's preference for form over content has prompted outcry from some Civic Platform types, such as Marcin Meller, the editor of Playboy Poland (and a serious public figure).
The centre-right opposition Civic Platform (PO) is strongly in favour of an early election and the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) has also stated that it would like an early poll.
However, Mr Kaczynski's party did not do well enough to govern alone: with 27% of the vote, it must strike a coalition deal with Civic Platform, on 24%, to secure a majority in parliament.
Formed last summer, Civic Platform is still gelling.
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The Social Democrats are still well ahead, but for the first time in two years they are losing ground, thanks to a new liberal-conservative party that calls itself the Civic Platform, or plain Platform, which is bidding spiritedly for the middle ground.
Keya Dannenbaum is the founder and CEO of ElectNext, a data-driven civic engagement platform.
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