Polish opposition lead as election campaign ends
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Poland's centre-right opposition cemented its opinion poll lead over the conservative party of the ruling Kaczynski twins on Friday, the last day of campaigning before a snap parliamentary election on Sunday.
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An opposition party that wants Poland's troops out of Iraq has ousted the ruling conservatives in elections, and the incoming government promises to negotiate a tougher deal with the U.S. when it comes to hosting a missile defense base.
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The Ukrainian opposition on Tuesday complained of foot-dragging by officials and a vote-count cover-up in the race for president, claiming that Viktor Yushchenko had taken the lead.
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Pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko ended ahead of PM Viktor Yanukovych in the first round of Ukraine's presidential vote, the Central Elections Commission said.
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Poland headed towards early elections  after conservative Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski fired his  deputy and main coalition partner on Monday over a corruption  investigation.
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Poland's parliament called an early election on Friday that will pit the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against a pro-business opposition party.
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Backers of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych appeared headed for bitter disappointment as exit polls and the partial vote count showing opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko winning a comfortable victory.
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Opposition parties in Poland move to force early elections - but their plan still faces significant obstacles.
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Poland's parliament looks set to call early elections on Friday, pitting the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against a pro-business opposition party.
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Poland on Monday looked headed for a new pro-business, Europe-friendly government after the opposition liberals trounced the Kaczynski twins' ruling conservative alliance in a snap election.
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The two rivals in Ukraine's re-run of a rigged presidential election made last-minute pitches to voters on Friday, closing a campaign that has thrown the country into turmoil and could put a West-leaning ...
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Poland's conservatives abruptly ended   their rocky coalition with the leftist Self-Defence party after   a bitter row over next year's budget, bringing the ex-communist   EU member to the brink of early polls.
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Poles voted Sunday in a parliamentary election which could see the liberal opposition win power from the outspokenly conservative Kaczynski twins.
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WARSAW, Poland Â Poles began voting Sunday in elections pitting the prime minister's nationalists against a pro-business party that wants to bring the country's 900 troops home from Iraq and get more in return for hosting a U.S. missile defense base.
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Poles began voting Sunday in a snap parliamentary election, with a resurgent pro-business party striving to end two years of often combative conservative rule by the identical Kaczynski twins.
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Poles voted on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that could weaken the grip of the conservative Kaczynski twins and bring in a government ready to speed up economic reforms and improve relations with EU allies.
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Poles began voting on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that could cost the ruling Kaczynski twins their full grip on government in the European Union's biggest former communist country.