Opposition party wins Poland election
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A pro-business opposition party that wants Poland's troops out of Iraq ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government in parliamentary elections Sunday, as Poles opted for leadership offering a more cooperative approach to the European Union.
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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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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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Taiwan's opposition parties, which favor closer ties with China, claimed victory in the parliament elections on Saturday, beating President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence party after a tight race.
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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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WARSAW, Poland  - Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated out of victory in his country's presidential election.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko claimed victory on Monday in a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election.
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Ukraine's opposition scored key victories Wednesday in its bid to scrap a disputed presidential election as parliament voted no confidence in the government and European-brokered talks provided momentum toward holding a new ballot.
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The leader of Poland's governing party, Josef Oleksy, is found guilty of lying about his past as a communist agent.
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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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Pro-West opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has claimed victory in Ukraine&#39;s historic presidential election re-run. He told his supporters on Monday morning that the vote was a triumph for the country and
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Opposition parties in Poland move to force early elections - but their plan still faces significant obstacles.
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Ukraine&#39;s opposition scored key victories Wednesday in its bid to scrap a disputed presidential election as parliament voted no confidence in the government and European
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Early results from Poland's local elections indicate the governing party has lost Warsaw.
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The Czech Republic's Green Party won its first political victory Saturday with the election of a Green Party candidate to the Senate.
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A popular former prime minister from  Poland&#39;s governing conservatives endorsed an opposition  candidate for next month&#39;s parliamentary election on Monday,  dealing a blow to the ruling Kaczynski twins.
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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.