Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, the candidate of ruling Civic Platform party, was elected new president of Poland for a five-year term in the country's second round of presidential elections yesterday with 53.1 percent of votes. Komorowski, speaker of Poland's lower house of parliament and acting president, won 53.1 percent of votes, defeating his rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the conservative Law and Justice Party and the twin brother of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, who got 46.9 percent of the vote. According to TNS OBOP, the turnout reached 56.2 percent.Komorowski took over presidential duties after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in an air crash on April 10 near Smolensk, Russia.