Defeated President Lech Walesa's campaign staff alleged fraud by victorious ex-communist Aleksander Kwasniewski's followers and said Tuesday they would submit a legal challenge to the election result.
"We have a basis for submitting to the Supreme Court a motion for the elections to be annulled," Walesa's campaign spokesman Boguslaw Kowalski told Reuters. He said that in some places members of local electoral commissions supporting Kwasniewski placed fraudulent vote cards in the ballot boxes.Just about 600,000 votes separated the two candidates in Sunday's election, which had a record turnout.
"We have evidence that voting cards were thrown in, evidence that one of the members of an electoral commission in Warsaw added a whole sheaf - he was caught red-handed," Kowalski added.