Poland to vote in snap election
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People in Poland will shortly begin voting in a parliamentary election called two years ahead of schedule.
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Poles born after the fall of communism  have their first chance to vote on Sunday and the ruling  Kaczynski twins are unlikely to attract their support.
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A junior coalition partner is to stay in Poland's conservative government, making a snap election less likely.
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Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh  Rasmussen will hold a snap general election next month to  capitalize on the rising popularity of his center-right Liberal  party, government sources said on Wednesday.
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Georgians vote in a snap presidential election, seen as a democracy test for the former Soviet republic.
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Poland's conservative Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Friday he saw an equal chance that the country would need to hold early elections or that the current coalition would hold together.
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Poland formally told its European  Union partners it could not accept a reformed voting system  enshrined in the defunct EU constitution, raising the prospect  of a crisis at a crucial summit later this week.
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Poland's opposition on Thursday  increased the pressure on the conservative government to quit,  but it remained unclear whether it had the strength to force  snap polls in a parliamentary showdown set for next month.
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Voters are set to elect a new parliament Saturday for the first time since the Baltic nation settled into a new era of stability by joining the European Union and NATO in 2004.Comment
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Poland&#39;s ruling conservatives surged  back ahead of the opposition according to a poll released on  Tuesday, increasing the chance of a deadlocked parliament after  a snap election expected in October.
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Poland formally told its European Union partners it could not accept a reformed voting system enshrined in the defunct EU constitution, raising the prospect of a crisis at a crucial summit later this week.
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Polish MPs are to vote shortly on a motion whether to dissolve parliament and hold elections two years early.
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Ukraine's parliament votes to approve a snap election aimed at ending a crisis between the president and the PM.
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Poland's ruling Kaczynski twins risk losing control of the government in a closely fought election on Sunday that will have implications beyond the borders of the European Union's biggest former communist state.
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Poland's capital is set to get its first woman mayor, liberal Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, after voters in weekend municipal elections dealt a symbolic blow to the conservative government of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, final results showed.
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WARSAW (International Herald Tribune) - The text message spread with viral speed among the cellphones of Polish teens. With national parliamentary elections coming up Sunday, kids had a clear mission: "Steal your grandmother's ID," the text jokingly implored. The message referred to the conventional wisdom here that conservative older women put the ruling Law and Justice Party and the Kaczynski brothers - the notorious twins with the round faces of aging cherubs who are prime minister and president - into office. Without their identity cards, the grandmothers would not be able to vote. If granny does not vote, the government could be driven from office.  Teenagers guffawed. The Kaczynskis fumed. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that those who repeated the message "act against you and also against the Polish nation." The small Polish Peasants Party quickly ran its own advertisement in which a grandmother catches her grandson in the act of snatching her identity card. She tells there's no need for him to steal it, because she plans to vote for the Peasants Party and not Law and Justice. In the previous 2005 election, Law and Justice benefited from low voter turnout, needing only 3.2 million votes in a country of 38 million to take control of government in a coalition with several smaller parties. The most recent coalition fell apart over a contentious scandal-filled summer, leading to early elections this weekend.  Opponents are counting on a strong turnout by younger voters this time around. The latest opinion polls show Civic Platform, a free-market, pro-European rival party, poised to win the election Sunday. But polls here have proved highly unreliable, skewed by the country's historically lethargic turnout, which was a little over 40 percent in the elections two years ago.
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski stepped up the rhetoric over European Union voting rights Wednesday, saying Poles were ready to &quot;die&quot; to get their way on the issue.