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  • Thursday ,22 April 2010
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Poland to hold June 20 presidential elections

By-CNN

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Thursday ,22 April 2010

Poland to hold June 20 presidential elections

 (CNN) -- Poland will hold elections on June 20 to elect a successor to Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash earlier this month, the press office of the country's parliament said Wednesday.

 
Elections were originally scheduled for the fall.
 
Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski has said he will be a candidate.
 
Kaczynski's plane crashed in bad weather near Smolensk in western Russia on April 10.
 
Ninety-five others died in the crash, including Kaczynski's wife, top military leaders and dignitaries.