Poland’s deputy prime minister, who until now had led a junior party in the government, has lost his position as head of his Polish People’s Party, raising questions about the government’s continued make-up.

CENTRE-RIGHT leader Donald Tusk last night became the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to win a second consecutive term following his Civic Platform’s election victory.

POLISH prime minister Donald Tusk and his centre-right Civic Platform (PO) looked like creating history by being the first government to run full term and be re-elected.

THE election of Bronislaw Komorowski’s as president offered Poland’s pro-business ruling party an opportunity but also a challenge, as it prepared to govern without a hostile head of state.

THE election of Bronislaw Komorowski’s as president offered Poland’s pro-business ruling party an opportunity but also a challenge, as it prepared to govern without the obstacle of a hostile head of state.

Poland’s Bronislaw Komorowski was officially declared the country’s new president today comfortably defeating rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI has conceded defeat in the Polish presidential elections.

POLAND’S presidential race between business-friendly Bronislaw Komorowski and conservative Jaroslaw Kaczynski is too close to call ahead of the final round of voting tomorrow, surveys showed yesterday.

POLAND’S centrist presidential candidate Bronislaw Komorowski faces a tight run-off vote against his right-wing rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski on July 4 after beating him by only a few percentage points in a Sunday vote.

EXIT polls in Poland’s presidential election last night show that the interim president and parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski is leading Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the brother of the president killed in a plane crash in April, but without the 50% needed for outright victory.

JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI, the twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski, said yesterday he would be the candidate of his right-wing opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) in a presidential election.

POLAND’S acting president vowed to move swiftly to set an election date and remove uncertainty after the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other high-ranking officials in a plane crash.

THE body of President Lech Kaczynski was returned to Poland yesterday where it was greeted by grieving dignitaries and thousands of Poles lining the route from Warsaw’s airport to the presidential palace.

POLAND has approved a law-making chemical castration mandatory for paedophiles in some cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups.

Poland’s business-friendly and pro-EU Civic Platform ousted prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s conservatives in parliamentary elections, early results said today, in the strongest showing for any single party since the eastern European country overthrew Communism in 1989.

UP TO 200 Polish workers at one of the ESB’s main power stations, Moneypoint, last night voted in favour of industrial action claiming they have not been paid since the beginning of September and now face the prospect of losing their jobs.

Poland’s parliament voted to dissolve itself today, triggering an early election which the government has sought in a bid to end long-running political turbulence.

Poland’s governing Law and Justice party has decided to push for early elections amid strife with its two coalition partners, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said today.

The US has its political power families: the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes. But nothing quite like what is developing in Poland.

Politicians from the left and right today criticised new Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz’s decision to extend Poland’s military mission in Iraq.

The two centre-right parties that emerged from Poland’s weekend election with the most votes were expected to open coalition talks today, but were first trying to agree on who the chief negotiators should be.

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, a former school principal turned economic adviser, is set to become Poland’s new prime minister as he embarks on talks to form a new government that will try to reduce taxes and increase prosperity for the country’s 38 million residents.

POLAND’S centre-right parties, celebrating a crushing victory yesterday over the ruling left, faced tough talks on forming a coalition amid divisions over the scope of market reforms.

The leader of the winning party in Poland’s election pledged today to move ahead quickly on forming a coalition government to tackle economic problems that include the European Union’s highest unemployment rate.

Polish voters, fed up with the sleaze-ridden left-wing government, were expected to cast their ballots today for two centre-right parties that promise tax cuts and clean government.

Poland heads into general elections this weekend with two centre-right parties set to hand a stinging defeat to the governing ex-communists and touch off a struggle over economic policy in the EU’s biggest new member.

Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka was to submit his resignation today to fulfil a promise to head a caretaker government for only one year, an offer that President Aleksander Kwasniewski was expected to reject.

Frustrated Polish voters handed power to a reformed party of ex-communists in parliamentary elections and sent the once-mighty Solidarity bloc into political oblivion, exit polls showed.