Poland votes in parliamentary election

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">According to the latest opinion poll conducted by TNS-OBOP for Gazeta Wyborcza, the Civic Platform may win about 39.5% of the votes while Law and Justice may gather 29.1%.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Over 30 million Poles eligible to vote are electing 460 lawmakers to the Sejm, the country’s lower house of parliament, and also 100 senators to the upper house.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform led the final opinion polls but its main rival, former premier Jaroslaw Kaczynski's conservative-nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, narrowed the gap at the end of the election campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Civic Platform, which has pledged to focus on economic reform and closer ties with the European Union, is likely to win the parliamentary poll by a margin of 4-10% to become the first party ever to win two consecutive terms since the collapse of communism in 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">WARSAW (RIA Novosti)- Poles are voting on Sunday in a parliamentary election, in which the ruling center-right Civic Platform is expected to win a new four-year term.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Poland votes in parliamentary election

According to the latest opinion poll conducted by TNS-OBOP for Gazeta Wyborcza, the Civic Platform may win about 39.5% of the votes while L...

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