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.

The Polish parliament today rejected a motion calling for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Marek Belka, who said this week that he would leave office in early May.

Beleaguered Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller announced tonight that he will resign on May 2 – the day after the country joins the European Union.

Poland’s embattled prime minister categorically denied any involvement in a murky scandal that has gripped the nation as he testified today before a parliamentary panel investigating allegations that a leading film producer attempted to solicit a bribe for lobbying the government.

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.