Opposition Heading to Victory in Poland - by David McHugh
A pro-business opposition party that wants to bring Poland's troops home from Iraq had a double-digit lead over the prime minister's strongly pro-U.S. party in the country's parliamentary elections Sunday, according to exit polls. State TV projections showed the Civic Platform party and its preferred coalition partner, the small Polish Peasants Party, winning a majority of seats in the lower house, which would allow them to form a government together and oust Jaroslaw Kaczynski as prime minister. Civic Platform was projected to take at least 224 seats and the Peasants Party 27 seats.
Kaczynski appeared headed for a stinging defeat in an election where Poles passed judgment on his combative approach to the European Union and controversial effort to purge former communists from positions of influence.
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