Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski (Xinhua/AFP)

    WARSAW, Oct. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski led with a narrow margin over Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform party in Poland's presidential run-off on Sunday, exit polls showed.

    One exit poll for Polish public television gave the mayor 52.8 percent against Tusk's 47.2 percent while the other for TVN24 private television put Kaczynski leading further ahead with 53.5 percent against Tusk's 46.5 percent. No official results will be available until Monday.

    Following the disclosure of exit poll results, Tusk told his supporters at his election headquarters that he had "most likely" lost the campaign.

    Kaczynski, of the socially conservative Law and Justice party, said he would approach Tusk and the two parties should sit down for talks on a coalition.

    The two parties together had won the parliamentary elections last month and had plans to form a coalition government.

    An official with the Civic Platform party said the talks, which had been postponed due to the presidential run-off, would be launched at noon on Monday.

    The decisive vote came after both Kaczynski and Tusk failed to secure more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round on Oct.9. The ultimate winner will succeed outgoing Aleksander Kwasniewski, whose second five-year term expires next month.

    Kaczynski, 56, wants tax cuts and promises a new Poland under the banner of "moral renewal," protecting the rights of workers and building a welfare state.

    Tusk, 48, prefers a freer market and vows to fight corruption and unemployment, and improve the country's relations with big neighbors Germany and Russia. Enditem