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...capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over 30% for the PIS. PO leader Donald Tusk, the likely Prime Minister in a coalition government, said last night...
...coming days Tusk's PO is expected to choose a coalition partner, most likely the socially conservative Polish Peasant's Party, which received about 8% of the vote. Domestically, a PO-led government will seek to deliver on promises to lower taxes on families and businesses. Party officials say Poland's foreign policy will change more in style than in substance: Its leaders will continue to defend national interests but will also seek to have a positive say in the European Union, where the Kaczynski government's recalcitrant stance often caused considerable anger. Radek Sikorski, a former Defense Minister under...
That appears to be a lot of people. The PIS looks poised for victory in Oct. 21 parliamentary elections, even though the last government it led collapsed just two months ago. The latest polls put the party a few points ahead of the opposition Civic Platform (PO), suggesting that it will again be charged with forming a governing coalition, with Jaroslaw Kaczynski in a prominent position; his brother's term as President does not expire until 2010. That may be a sobering prospect for Poland's E.U. partners, but the Kaczynskis don't answer to them at the polls. Speaking...
...weight - seen as the mainland's nod toward the island's contemporary-arts scene (even if not to the nascent Taiwanese democracy in which the arts have thrived). Mainland Chinese are "beginning to realize what has happened in Taiwan's artistic environment over the last 40 years," says Hsu Po-yun, director-general of the International New Aspect Culture and Education Foundation, a Taiwan arts-promotion body. "They take it seriously...
...writer is a researcher at the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques of Sciences-Po University, in Paris...