Twins risk losing Polish government in election
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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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Germany&#39;s two major political parties are bracing for heavy losses in Sunday&#39;s legislative elections in two former communist states.
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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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A new Polish women&#39;s political party risks shocking the majority Catholic country by plastering nude posters of their female candidates for the upcoming October 21 parliamentary election.
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A day after they forced out Poland's respected minister of defense, the identical twins who run Poland face accusations they have packed the government with inexperienced loyalists _ and damaged the country's ...Comment
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Poles on Sunday voted in a general election which could see the liberal opposition win power from the outspokenly conservative Kaczynski twins.
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Poland's ruling Kaczynski twins are set  to lose Sunday's parliamentary election to a centre-right  opposition party promising an "economic miracle" and withdrawal  from Iraq, opinion polls indicate.
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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 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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WARSAW (BBC News) - People in Poland are voting in general elections called two years early, after the collapse of the ruling coalition in a row over a corruption investigation. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's conservative Law and Justice Party is being challenged by the Civic Platform, led by centre right rival Donald Tusk.  Both parties have their roots in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. Some Poles still believe a coalition between them would give Poland its best chance of stable government. Some are calling these elections the most important since the fall of Communism in 1989. Swiss Votes Being Tallied BERN, Switzerland (SwissInfo) - The rightwing Swiss People's Party and the Greens look set to make the biggest gains in Sunday's parliamentary elections, according to a first nationwide exit poll. The centre-left Social Democrats will most likely be the big losers for the first time in nearly 30 years, according to a survey commissioned by SwissInfo's parent company, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Switzerland's system of proportional representation means the party cannot hope for an overall majority.  But the campaign has caused deep unease among the large immigrant community. One single issue dominated the election campaign: foreigners. Twenty percent of Switzerland's population is foreign and the now notorious poster from the right-wing Swiss People's Party, in which three white sheep kick a black sheep out of Switzerland, was widely regarded as racist.
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Polish President Lech Kaczynski swore his identical twin brother Jaroslaw in as prime minister last month in what some saw as a long-delayed victory for Poland's have-nots but others see as a defeat for the ...
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Poland&#39;s parliament is widely expected  to pass a motion on Friday triggering an early election pitting  the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against the main,  pro-business opposition party.
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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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Poland&#39;s shaky government survived the  latest political crisis on Monday when two junior coalition  parties abandoned their threat to walk out and bring forward  early elections.
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French President Chirac's ruling party risks losing its outright majority in an indirect vote to the Senate.
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Poland is braced for rival demonstrations planned by members of the governing conservatives and liberal opposition as the country's tumultuous politics spilled onto Warsaw's streets.
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Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.