Polish PM: Early polls in two months
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Poland's prime minister Tuesday told the nation the most suitable date for early parliamentary elections would be Oct. via UPI
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Ukraine's feuding president and prime minister agreed early Sunday to hold an early parliamentary election on Sept. 30, diffusing a months-long political crisis that had threatened to escalate into violence.
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Poland's parliament voted to dissolve itself Friday, forcing an election that the government had sought to end persistent political turbulence. President Lech Kaczynski set the vote for Oct. 21, two years ahead of schedule.Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president's twin brother, said the election would give voters a fresh chance to endorse what he calls his party's struggle to fight the corruption that has plagued Poland since the fall of communism in 1989.'I want to express my joy at parliament's decision to dissolve itself,' Kaczynski told reporters in parliament. 'These elections will create the chance for Poland to decide whether it wants to continue on its path of transition, however difficult, or whether it wants to follow the path of the rule of oligarchy.' Read more
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Australia&#39;s opposition Labor party has opened up a commanding lead over the conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard with around two months to go to an election, a poll said Monday.
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WARSAW, Poland Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on Sunday urged Poles to be patient with his governing coalition a day after a deputy premier suggested internal friction could lead to snap elections next year.
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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka is to arrive on a two-day visit to Libya on Wednesday, Turkish Press reported.
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Fiji's interim prime minister, who was installed by a military coup, said Thursday it could be two years before elections restore democracy to the South Pacific island.
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PRAGUE- The leadership of the senior government Social Democrats (CSSD) discussed the possibility of early elections during its meeting on Saturday, Health Minister Milada Emmerova (CSSD) said during Czech ...
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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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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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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka won a parliamentary vote of confidence Friday, heading off the prospect of renewed political turmoil in a country that is a key U.S. ally in Iraq and the European Union's largest new member.
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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka is to travel to Libya on Wednesday for a two-day visit that will include talks on Polish-Libyan cooperation in the oil sector, officials said here.
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Two preliminary exit polls showed opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko with a lead over Viktor Yanukovich, the prime minister.
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Poland's parliament called early elections on Friday that will pit the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against a pro-business opposition party.
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Politics: 5 January 2005, Wednesday. Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka arrived late on Tuesday in Libya on a two-day official visit.
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POLAND WASHINGTON -- The prime minister of Poland told his Parliament yesterday that he would begin reducing the number of Polish troops in Iraq in January, another blow to the US-led coalition that has lost nearly a third of its members this year. Addressing legislators before a vote of confidence, Prime Minister Marek Belka promised, ''We will not remain in ...
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Downing Street has played down reports that the Prime Minister may call an early election in February. Most political commentators expect Mr Blair to seek a new mandate in May 2005 since to go to the polls