Poland's parliament votes for early election
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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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Ukraine's president gives parliament an extra day to approve early elections to end a political stalemate.
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Early voting begins in Belarus parliament elections and a referendum on whether the president should stand for a third term.
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Ukraine's parliament misses a deadline to approve early elections to end a two-month political stalemate.
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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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Ukraine's president and PM agree to early elections in September, in an attempt to end a prolonged crisis.
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Ukraine&#39;s President Viktor Yushchenko set early parliamentary elections for September 30 on Tuesday, signalling the end of a two-month power struggle in the ex-Soviet republic.
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Poland's minority leftist government looks set to survive a confidence vote tomorrow, postponing until next year parliamentary elections which it is widely expected to lose.
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Early results from Poland's local elections indicate the governing party has lost Warsaw.
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Poland's main opposition party on Friday proposed early elections as a way out of a spiralling government crisis brought on by scandals.Comment
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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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Ukrainian lawmakers on Friday finished passing a series of bills needed to hold early parliamentary elections, a significant step toward resolving the country's political crisis that some had feared would spill over into violence.
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Poland will push to get concessions on a  European Union voting system written into the new EU treaty  because the bloc&#39;s leaders already agreed to them verbally,  Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Wednesday.
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Â·  Early election a response to military pressure Â·  Ultra-nationalists enter parliament with 15%
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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 has begun voting in the second round of mayoral elections which were seen as a key test of strength for the conservative government of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski and their liberal opponents.
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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