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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski has been selected by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist Civic Coalition as its candidate in next year's presidential election, beating out Foreign [...]

Official name Republic of Poland Form of state Parliamentary republic National legislature Bicameral: Sejm (the lower house) of 460 members; Senate (the upper house) of 100 members Electoral system Universal [...]

Poland: Country outlook FROM EIU POLITICAL STABILITY: EIU expects the government coalition, which consists of broadly liberal parties, to last a full four-year term to 2027. The government, led by [...]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's electoral authority said Thursday that the former ruling right-wing party violated campaign funding rules in the 2023 parliamentary vote, and imposed a penalty worth millions [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin The United States is not alone in confronting a right-wing authoritarian movement that, in addition to undermining democratic institutions and lashing out at the news media ('enemy [...]

Byline: Lili Bayer in Brussels block-time published-time 12.26pm BST In a statement yesterday, the archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, president of the Polish Bishops' Conference, said: I urgently ask all people of [...]

Byline: Editorial Last month, a survey of public opinion in Germany, France and Poland found that a majority in each country would support more ambitious policies to tackle the climate [...]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An exit poll released after Poland's local and regional elections Sunday showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-EU party trailing the conservative opposition party that governed Poland [...]

Byline: Ajit Niranjan European environment correspondent Poland's new climate minister has said she will 'get saws out of Polish forests' by limiting logging in 10 of the country's most treasured [...]

I was puzzled that Martin Kettle, in the broad sweep of his analysis of the dangers of the rise of far-right populist parties in Europe ( Europe has entered a [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker in Warsaw In Poland, there is a changing of the guard, but it's not happening quickly. The new parliament began work on Monday, but the government-in-waiting, led [...]

Byline: Wojciech Orlinski The city council of Czestochowa in central Poland passed a shocking resolution last year. Councillors announced that the city no longer wished to pay for religious education [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker Donald Tusk, who declared victory in last month's Polish parliamentary election, will have to wait several weeks before having a chance to form a government after the [...]

Byline: Andrew Higgins Loyalists of Poland's Law and Justice party are questioning the legitimacy of the election won this month by an alliance of opposition parties. After eight years of [...]

Byline: Roch Dunin-Wasowicz For LGBTQ+ people in Poland, the past eight years under the Law and Justice party (PiS) have been a period of turmoil and a test of endurance. [...]

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Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Abstract: An election in Poland results in a victory for three parties working together to end the ruling party's drift toward authoritarianism. When a democracy [...]

Byline: Weronika Strzyzynska in Rzeszów The big political battle in Sunday's Polish parliamentary election may be between the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, seeking a third term in office, [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor Poland's nationalist ruling party won the most votes in Sunday's election, but it's heading for defeat. A bloc of opposition parties collectively secured a comfortable majority of [...]

Donald Tusk hailed a new era for Poland after liberal, pro-EU opposition parties appeared poised to oust the governing conservative party in the nation's most pivotal election in decades. A [...]

TUSK CLAIMS ELECTION VICTORY POLISH opposition leader Donald Tusk has declared the beginning of a new era as the ruling Right-wing party faced being ousted after eight years in power. [...]

With all of the votes counted, liberal parties have probably won by enough to assemble a new coalition. The governing party can still form its own, but the prospects look [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola; Annabelle Chapman Poland's political opposition ecstatically declared victory Sunday in the country's most pivotal election since the fall of the Berlin Wall, after an exit poll suggested [...]

The election, seen as one of the most significant in decades, was cast as a choice between the defense of Polish sovereignty and liberal values. Centrist and progressive forces appeared [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker in Warsaw Voting is under way in Poland's parliamentary election, as the populist Law and Justice (PiS) government tries to win a third term in office and [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala; Kate Brady; Loveday Morris Poland will vote on Sunday to determine whether a political party accused of whittling away the country's democracy can stay in power, but [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker in Warsaw Poland is under attack from both east and west. Foes in Berlin and Moscow, using their proxy Donald Tusk, plan to destabilise the country, overrun [...]

FIRST SECTION DECISION Application no.8341/20 Mariusz WOLOSZ against Poland FACTS AND PROCEDURE 1. The application concerns the criminal conviction of the applicant, a member of Bytom City Council and of [...]

(JURIST) - The Law and Justice, a right-wing party in Poland, called upon its supporters to participate in a Thursday protest in defense of freedom of speech, media and democracy [...]

Byline: Gareth Harris (CNN) -- (CNN) -- The artist originally selected to represent Poland at the 2024 Venice Biennale last year has said a decision by the new Polish government [...]

Byline: Patrick Wintour In just the first week of campaigning for Poland's parliamentary elections, which will take place on 14 October, there have been allegations of politically manipulated interest rate [...]