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  POLAND'S ELECTIONS:
Donald Tusk – The Polish Dream Coming True.
(40-45%)
Draft of the young Donald Tusk to the politics brought him to the rows of fighters against the Communist regime already at the early stage of his studies in Gdansk University (Uniwersytet Gdanski), on the faculty of history.
Tusk himself was elected the Vice-Speaker of the Sejm, and he occupied this post till the recent elections, 18 September 2005.
Tusk's PR specialists used the people's need in a candidate, not involved in the argument between the left and the right camp (between the former Solidarity members and the post-Communists).
www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=407   (1361 words)

  
 www.premier.gov.pl
Przedstawiając w Sejmie expose premier Donald Tusk zapowiedział, że jego rząd będzie prowadzić liberalną politykę gospodarczą i solidarną politykę społeczną.
Prezes Rady Ministrów Donald Tusk wygłaszając w Sejmie expose zapowiedział, że koalicja PO i PSL zagwarantuje Polakom wolność i swobodę działania w każdej sferze życia społecznego i gospodarczego.
Premier Donald Tusk powołał pana Zdzisława Gawlika na stanowisko podsekretarza stanu w MSP, pana Marka Staszaka na stanowisko Prokuratora Krajowego – Zastępcy Prokuratora Generalnego w MS, pana Ryszarda Schnepfa na stanowisko podsekretarza stanu w MSZ »»
www.premier.gov.pl   (636 words)

  
  Donald Tusk - Biocrawler
Donald Tusk, born 22 April 1957 in Gdańsk, is a Polish politician, co-founder and today chairman of Platforma Obywatelska (=Citizen's Platform).
He is also a vice-chairman of the Sejm, the lower house of Polish parliament.
Donald Tusk is (as of 2004) an MP from Gdynia/Slupsk constituency.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Donald_Tusk   (93 words)

  
  Donald Tusk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald Franciszek Tusk, born on 22 April 1957 in Gdańsk, is a Polish politician, co-founder and now chairman of the moderately liberal Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska).
Both of Donald Tusk's parents were citizens of the Free City of Danzig.
During the Polish elections in 2005, it was claimed by Jacek Kurski, Lech Kaczyński's assistant, that Tusk's grandfather served as a volunteer in the German Army during WWII.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Tusk   (278 words)

  
 Tusk (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tusk is an extrememly long tooth, possessed by certain mammals, that sticks out of the mouth when it's closed.
Tusk shells (Scaphopoda) are a class of marine mollusks.
The Black Tusk is a peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tusk_(disambiguation)   (164 words)

  
 Polen sucht seinen Platz an der Sonne | Politik | Deutsche Welle | 12.10.2005
Donald Tusk von der liberalkonservativen Bürgerplattform (PO), der für eine unternehmerfreundliche Politik eintritt, erhielt 38,5 Prozent der Stimmen.
Für den nationalkonservativen Warschauer Oberbürgermeister Lech Kaczynski stimmten 33 Prozent der rund 30 Millionen wahlberechtigten Polen.
In den Achtziger Jahren waren sowohl Lech Kaczynski als auch Donald Tusk in der Antikommunistischen Opposition aktiv.
www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1738203,00.html   (762 words)

  
 Donald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald (Domnall, Domhnall, Dumhnuil, Dónall) is an anglicized version of a Scottish or Irish Gaelic personal name, containing the elements dumno "world" and val "rule", viz.
Donald Trump (born 1946), American business executive, founder and CEO of Trump Organization.
Donald Tusk (born 1957), Polish politician, chairman of Citizens Platform (Platforma Obywatelska)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald   (192 words)

  
 RNW: Morality is the key in Poland's presidential elections
The two main candidates for the Polish presidency - Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform party and Lech Kaczynski of the Law and Justice party - both agree that the weak economy, with an unemployment rate of 18 percent, is the fault of the outgoing government.
Lech Kaczynski and Donald Tusk have been conducting a public battle over matters such as: which of them is the most fervent Catholic, and which of them cares most for the poor and needy.
Donald Tusk even found it necessary to profess his faith in public view by getting married - again - in church some 20 years after he and his wife were wed in a civil ceremony.
www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/region/easterneurope/pol051007   (569 words)

  
 Poland-Election-Nazis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pro-business legislator Donald Tusk told supporters at a rally in southern Poland it was "despicable" that the months his grandfather spent in a reserve unit in the German army should become a campaign issue.
Tusk's campaign managers have suggested the revelation - coming in the last weeks of the campaign - was meant to smear the front-runner ahead of the tight vote.
Tusk, who initially dismissed the claim, later said he was unaware of his grandfather's service between August and October 1944.
www.cbc.ca /cp/world/051015/w101568.html   (424 words)

  
 ABC News: Exit Poll: Tusk Leads Election in Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Donald Tusk, right, presidential candidate from the Civic Platform party, with wife Malgorzata, casts his ballot in the Polish presidential election in Sopot, northern Poland, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005.
Tusk is one of the main contenders in the election.
An exit poll by state television indicated that Donald Tusk, a pro-business candidate committed to stimulating entrepreneurship with low taxes and deregulation, was leading Lech Kaczynski, a former child actor hoping to preserve a strong safety net and Roman Catholic values in the homeland of the late Pope John Paul II.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1197728   (435 words)

  
 kaczyński - Przeglądaj wg tagów - kaczyński
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www.money.pl /archiwum/tagi/tag,kaczynski,1830,1.html   (653 words)

  
 Donald Tusk - News, photos, topics, and quotes - Daylife
We want to deal with it." Donald Tusk also hinted that the ABM issue has not been finalized and, hence, Moscow has a chance to persuade Warsaw not to host the...
In Warsaw, meanwhile, new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that the country would withdraw its approximately 900 troops from Iraq by the end of the year.
Donald Franciszek Tusk, born on 22 April 1957 in Gdańsk, is a Polish politician, co-founder and now chairman of the liberal conservative Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska).
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 rząd - Przeglądaj wg tagów - rząd
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www.money.pl /archiwum/tagi/tag,rzad,837,1.html   (462 words)

  
 VrooBlog
Donald Tusk obniżył podatki – od środy PIT, CIT i VAT w Polsce wynoszą 1%, jednocześnie Donald Tusk zwiększył wynagrodzenia – pielęgniarka zarabia średnio 5890 zł netto, a lekarz 25630 zł netto.
Donald Tusk rozdał akcje, średnio 70 tysięcy na głowę.
Wieczorem w niedzielę od niechcenia Donald Tusk zniósł przymrozki, by jabłka już nigdy nie drożały.
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 News from Poland - Donald Tusk top choice in October presidential elections
Centrist-liberal presidential candidate Donald Tusk has emerged as the top choice for October presidential election, according to two surveys published today in "Rzeczpospolita" and "Gazeta Wyborcza" dailies.
The 48-year-old candidate of center right-wing Civic Platform Donald Tusk has extended his lead to 41 percent - twenty percentage points ahead of his right-wing rival, Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski - a poll published by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily reports.
The surveys also show Tusk as a definite winner in a second run-off ballot scheduled for October 25 should voter turn-out fall below 50 per cent in the October 9 first round vote.
www.poland.pl /news/article.htm?id=187974   (228 words)

  
 RTE News - Tusk win in Poland sets up second round poll
Donald Tusk has won the most votes in Poland's presidential election, putting him in the leading position for a 23 October run-off against conservative Lech Kaczynski.
Donald Tusk's failure to secure an outright majority means the race to succeed outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski must go to the second round.
Tusk and Kaczynski were well ahead of the other 10 candidates, cementing a swing to the right in Poland after their parties, heirs to the pro-democracy Solidarity movement, trounced the ruling left in parliamentary polls last month.
www.rte.ie /news/2005/1009/poland.html?rss   (225 words)

  
 European elections monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Donald Tusk, president of the Civic Platform is also the main favourite in the presidential election for which Aleksander Kwasniewski (Democratic Left Alliance, SLD), in office since 19th November 1995 cannot stand.
August the two liberal leaders, Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski, both running in the presidential election on 9th October, spoke of their differences during a dinner to celebrate the excellent results won by their respective parties in the polls; they tried to find a compromise on the subjects that divide them.
The next day Donald Tusk maintained that they had come to an agreement on the fact that the party that came out first in the elections would have the right to apply its taxation programme, claims that were immediately refuted by Lech Kaczynski.
www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/pologne/presidentielles   (2560 words)

  
 NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - Comcast.net
Tusk, the smooth-mannered deputy parliament speaker, had 36.3 percent of the votes from Sunday's election, while the outspoken Kaczynski had 33.1 percent.
Tusk wants a 15 percent flat tax rate on personal and corporate earnings, while Kaczynski favors a greater role for the state in protecting the social safety net and promoting Roman Catholic values.
The election of either Tusk or Kaczynski would cement the sharp decline of the ruling former communists, who were soundly defeated in the parliamentary election.
www.comcast.net /news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2005/10/10/238591.html   (513 words)

  
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Donald Tusk had been leading in the polls, and was the favorite of the younger generation, but his ideas for free market reforms and cutbacks of welfare programs didn't go over all that well with older Poles.
Tusk's opponent in the runoff is Mayor Lech Kaczynski of Warsaw, who leans left when it comes to social spending and the welfare state but is a deeply conservative Roman Catholic outspokenly opposed to abortion, divorce and homosexuality.
Tusk stands for a kind of modern secular liberalism, a nonjudgmental, morally relativist stance of the sort that might be found, say, in a Paris café or on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
www.chicagoboyz.net /archives/003651.html   (1223 words)

  
 the beatroot: Duck suddenly gets that sinking feeling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Donald Tusk immediately quashed the story by proving that both his grandfathers had fought for AKA (resistance) during the war, and spent some time in a concentration camp for their troubles.
According to a poll published last night on the daily Fakty newscast on TVN, Tusk has now increased his lead on Kaczynski to 24 points - though another by OBOP finds that this lead to be 12% - still a movement away from Lech by two points, at 56 - 44%.
This all comes on the back of Lech Walesa announcing that he is rooting for Donald Tusk in the second round on October 23.
beatroot.blogspot.com /2005/10/duck-suddenly-gets-that-sinking.html   (551 words)

  
 EJP | News | Eastern Europe | Presidential candidate faces Wehrmacht accusation
Tusk said both his grandfathers had fought in the Polish resistance during the war, and had spent part of the conflict in German concentration camps on Polish soil.
Tusk finished the first presidential round with slightly more than 36 percent of the vote, with Kaczynski nipping at his heels with 33 percent.
As Tusk and Kaczynski fight it out for the presidency, their parties are in talks to form a coalition to govern Poland.
www.ejpress.org /article/3636   (379 words)

  
 ABC News: Polish Candidate Dismisses Nazi Report   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Presidential front-runner Donald Tusk dismisses claims made by opponents that his grandfather fought in the German army during World War II.
Tusk narrowly won last Sunday's first-round presidential balloting with 36 percent of the vote.
An official from the campaign of Lech Kaczynski, Tusk's rival in an Oct. 23 runoff for the presidency, said after the first round of voting Sunday that there were rumors Tusk's grandfather volunteered for the Wehrmacht.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1203322   (373 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary
Tusk and Kaczynski, both participants in the 1980s Solidarity movement that led to the lifting of the Iron Curtain, are now rivals in a battle that's split voters over how they want their country run.
Tusk, 48, leads the pro-business Citizens' Platform party, which advocates adoption of the euro by the end of the decade and better relations with Germany and Russia.
Tusk worked as a manual laborer while active in the opposition during the 1980s, before becoming a parliamentary deputy in 1991 after the country's first fully free elections.
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 CTV.ca - Polish election heads for run-off- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Donald Tusk, presidential candidate of the Civic Platform party speaks as exit polls are announced just after the vote in the Sunday presidential election ended.
A victory by either Tusk or Kaczynski will cement a swing to the right in the European Union newcomer after their parties, heirs to the pro-democracy Solidarity movement, trounced the ruling left in a parliamentary poll last month.
Tusk has said if he is elected, he would like to give increased weight to the president.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20051009/poland_president_election_051009/20051010?hub=TopStories&subhub=PrintStory   (335 words)

  
 Poland Takes a Turn to the Right in Electing New President - New York Times
Tusk, 49, is also a conservative but supports more of a free-market approach to social and economic policy.
Tusk was supported by the upper hierarchy of the Catholic Church, however, as well as by the departing president, Alexander Kwasniewski, who was prevented under the Constitution from running for a third term.
Tusk, who also has a Solidarity background, was also endorsed by a former president, Lech Walesa, the founder of the Solidarity movement.
www.nytimes.com /2005/10/24/international/europe/25polandcnd.html?ex=1287806400&en=6ce63b44bae0878a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (818 words)

  
 European elections monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Accusations were made against Donald Tusk’s (PO) grandfather who is said to have served in the German army.
Donald Tusk is a pro-European liberal whilst Lech Kaczynski is a conservative Catholic, a eurosceptic and a supporter of a strong, social State.
They have followed their natural instinct of supporting the victors and it is Donald Tusk who won the first round of the presidential election,” analyses Aleksander Smolar, president of the Batory Foundation.
robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/pologne/presidentielles/default3.htm   (744 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WARSAW Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski were running neck and neck in public opinion polls Friday as Poland prepared for a presidential runoff on Sunday.
Tusk, the 48-year-old candidate of the business-friendly Civic Platform party, finished three percentage points in front of Kaczynski in the first round of the election two weeks ago and then built up a healthy lead over his conservative rival.
The two leading contenders, Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski, both sprang from the Solidarity movement in the 1980s and have campaigned on promises to cleanse the state of corruption and the influence of former communists.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=tusk   (2679 words)

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