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 Part 1: The Polish Government - The Churchill Centre
He pr6posed that several Polish leaders from Lublin and London be invited to Moscow to form a new provisional government, a Presidential Committee of three and a new constitution, under which free elections would be held.
Stalin wanted a Polish government that was friendly to Russia, and, at least partly as a result of the German invasion of 1941, he felt that he could ensure the friendliness of a country on his border only by controlling it, directly or indirectly.
Although the free elections agreed to at Yalta had not been held, the American and British governments, at President Truman's request, withdrew their recognition from the Polish government in London and transferred it to the new government in Warsaw.
www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=89   (4992 words)

  
 POLISH NEWS - Straight from POLAND - January 2001.
Polish officials want Poles to be able to accept employment anywhere in the EU the minute Poland joins the political and trading bloc.
Krzaklewski was criticized for his poor showing in October's presidential elections, easily won by ex-communist incumbent Aleksander Kwasniewski, but none of his critics could hope to garner even a small fraction of the votes the AWS leader had received.
Polish nurses have staged one of the most dramatic pay protests in years and brought life in some parts of Poland to a standstill.
www.polishnews.com /fulltext/straight/2001/hotnews57_1.shtml   (1780 words)

  
 CEELI - Draft Law Assessments
The "Rationale Report to the Draft Amendments to the Act of Elections" contends that this amendment "is a reaction to creation of a single election circuit." That argument, however, seems without merit in that the current circuit of four regions has no obvious connection to either the current law or to the proposed amendment.
While reliance on professional staff is necessary in any election, the selection and supervision of this staff should rest with the bodies composed of the representative actors participating in the elections—namely representatives of various political parties—rather than with government institutions controlled by the party in power.
Election laws, whether in the Slovak Republic or in any other democratic jurisdiction, are of necessity enacted by incumbent politicians, often in such a way as to further their incumbency.
www.abanet.org /ceeli/publications/assessments/slovakia/elections.html   (3991 words)

  
 Polish Elections 2005: Shift to the right in the polls, shift to the left on the streets
Since 1989, Polish elections, to put it euphemistically, have not been characterised by exceptionally high turnouts, but it is only this time that the psychological barrier of 40 per cent has been reached.
For the same reasons right after the elections all the sociologists and media commentators were united in explaining that “Polish society does not posses political culture”, “society is ignorant and irresponsible” and so on and so forth.
The situation of Polish capitalism, despite continuous GDP growth, is already very volatile with high unemployment and the artificially high value of the Polish zloty.
www.marxist.com /polish-elections-2005.htm   (1873 words)

  
 Polish Economic Reform: A Class Analysis
In the so-called round-table negotiations in February, Solidarity was allowed to participate in the election of one-thirds of the seats in the Sejm, the crucial lower house, with the remaining two-thirds of seats reserved for Communist party and its allies.
Welesa's bid for presidency in 1990 was wrapped in anti-liberal populism and exploited the workers' resentment of the economic reform of Mazowiecki government.
Polish premier Hanna Suchocka Dec. 23 vowed to not give in to demands of coal miners and other striking workers in what was believed to be the largest industrial job action in Poland since World war II 1993 2-22: Polish labor Minister Jacek Kuron signed a three-way privatization pact with employers and trade unions.
www.eco.utexas.edu /faculty/Cleaver/rieprop.html   (14842 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - The Serious and the Ridiculous
The presidential race, however, is not only a race between personalities, even though that aspect of candidates is played up in their campaigns.
His evergreen ideas (this is his third presidential election) are to bring back the death penalty and introduce an income tax of three per cent for everyone.
The 2000 presidential campaign has only begun, but with the way votes are likely to be cast, it is doubtful whether it will be as sharp as five years ago.
www.ce-review.org /00/29/kosc29.html   (1577 words)

  
 Polish presidential election, 1990 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 25 (first round), and Sunday December 9, 1990 (second round).
These were the first direct presidential elections in the history of Poland.
Unexpectedly, the Wałęsa's countercandidate in the 2nd round was Canadian businessman of Polish origin Stanisław Tymiński.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish_presidential_election,_1990   (248 words)

  
 POLAND'S ELECTIONS:
Brief Information About the Participants
Polish Social Democrats (Socjaldemokracja Polska – SdPl) was founded in 2004, after the internal split in SLD.
Elections platform of this party contains a standard set of slogans of the leftist camp (defense of workers' rights, support of socially weak groups of population, etc.).
Elections are organized by the Election Committee (Komitet Wyborczy "Mniejszosc Niemiecka"),which was founded in 1990.
www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=396   (1313 words)

  
 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Polish legislative election, 1947   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Polish legislative election, 1947 was held on January 19, 1947 in the People’s Republic of Poland.
Nonetheless, the election gave the Soviet Union and its Polish satellite communist government[2] enough legitimacy to claim that Poland was ‘free and democratic’, and allowing Poland to sign the charter of the United Nations [Schlesinger 2003].
The election law, introduced before the elections, allowed the government - which since its estabilishment in 1944 was controlled by the communists - to remove over half a million people from the list of those eligible for voting, under false accusations of collaboration with the Nazis or ‘anti-government bandits’ (i.e.
random.dragonslife.org /polish-legislative-election-1947/4895   (1080 words)

  
 Woman Presidential Candidates 1990-99
For many years she was a leading member of the Center Party, and considered a front-runner in the Presidential elections.
Member of the European Parliament for Finne Gael since 1994, she was one of four female and one male candidates in the Presidential elections won by Mary McAleese.
In 1999 she was Presidential candidate, but instead the parliament elected her as Vice-President and she took over as President in 2002 after her predecessor was ousted.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /candidates1990.htm   (2570 words)

  
 Democratic Poland - History - Poland - Europe
The September 1993 elections simplified the party system by excluding all but the six parties who succeeded in gaining the minimum electoral threshold of 5 percent of the vote (8 percent for coalitions).
In the presidential election held in November 1995, Walesa, who had discredited himself among the Poles through his personal failings and political mistakes, was unseated by Kwasniewski, a former Communist and the founder and leader of the SLD.
The election was a stunning defeat for the Solidarity-led AWS, which was ousted from parliament after failing to win the minimum 8 percent of the vote required for coalitions.
www.countriesquest.com /europe/poland/history/democratic_poland.htm   (982 words)

  
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Participated in 1990 elections as a majority candidates well as by party list - in the bloc - "Mrgvali magida - Tavisupali Sakartvelo", got an MP, 1991-1992 - was a member of fraction "Mrgvali Magida".
Participated in 1990 parliamentary elections by party list of the "round Table-Free Georgia", got an MP, 1990-1991 - was a chairman of fraction "Radical Union".1990-1992 - a member of the Committee of Economic Reforms.1990-1992 - a member of the Privatisation Commission.
The party participated in 1990 parliamentary elections within the block "Freedom", received 9% of votes, was represented by11 MPs (elected by party list) and 1 MP (majority).
www.eurasianet.org /departments/election/georgia/geoparties.html   (9379 words)

  
 Polish American News
Polish conservative members of the European Parliament have horrified some of their colleagues with an exhibition in the European Parliament building in Brussels comparing abortion to the killing in Nazi concentration camps.
On a map of the presidential election, Poland is divided between "orange" and "blue" regions.
BRUSSELS A Polish woman who was denied an abortion in Poland took her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Tuesday, citing what she described as a rising tide of opposition against women's rights in Poland after a conservative government won election last year.
www.polishkaleidoscope.com /polamnews.htm   (8114 words)

  
 Research
The EU Accession Referendum and the 2004 European Parliament Elections in Poland, NCEEER, 2003-2005
The 2000 Presidential Elections in Poland, Washington and Lee University, 1999-2001
The 1995 Presidential Elections in Poland, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1995-96
home.wlu.edu /~jasiewiczk/research.htm   (221 words)

  
 In Poland
The entrance of original, legal programs on the Polish market arose amazement and indignation because as it turned out  the originals cost much more than people were already used to.
The president of the Civic Platform party, Donald Tusk, who lost the presidential election to Kaczynski in October, urges that Law and Justice should not seek a coalition with a party called Self-Defense, but instead that they should seek conversations with Civic Platform in order to advance some specific laws.
The Polish newspaper “Gazeta Wyborcza” reports that this time the transfer of office was the example of the highest standards of political correctness, so much so that Polish journalists named it a „velvet” process.
www.polishednews.com /poland.html   (1584 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Is Kwasniewski What the U.N. Needs?
In presidential elections to be held on Oct. 9, two center-right parties are expected to capture around 70% of the vote.
Kwasniewski’s party, the ruling Democratic Left Alliance, was defeated in the September parliament election in Poland (their strength in the lower house will be reduced from 217 seats to about 50, which is the lowest point for the Alliance since it was created in 1990).
The result of the parliamentary election and the expected result in the presidential election are considered a slap in the face for Kwasniewski.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-10-10/33125.html   (677 words)

  
 Polish presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presidential elections were held in Poland on October 9 and October 23, 2005.
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the candidate of the Alliance of the Democratic Left, which was the governing party before the legislative election withdrew from the race on September 14.
Other candidates, who withdrew from the elections, but initially have signed to, were Zbigniew Religa and Maciej Giertych.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish_presidential_election,_2005   (414 words)

  
 Timeline 1990A
1990 Jan 29, Former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood went on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemming from the nation's worst oil spill; Hazelwood later was acquitted of the major charges and convicted of a misdemeanor.
1990 Mar 24, Soviet military vehicles rumbled through the heart of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius as lawmakers in the breakaway Baltic republic voted to transfer their power to foreign soil if they were attacked or arrested.
1990 May 29, Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic in the third round of balloting by the Russian parliament.
timelines.ws /20thcent/1990A.HTML   (8603 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Yushchenko claims victory in Ukraine; Yanukovych refuses to concede   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko celebrated his apparent victory in Ukraine's presidential election rerun Monday, but his opponent refused to concede defeat and vowed to challenge the results before Ukraine's Supreme Court in what could be a protracted legal battle.
"It is the collective judgment of the organizations represented here that the Ukrainian elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other international standards," said Bruce George, head of the delegation from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and other election watchdogs.
Tension during the fiercely fought election campaign was fueled by fraud allegations and Yushchenko's claims to have been poisoned by authorities in an assassination attempt.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-26-ukraine-election_x.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Miscellanea
Economic and Identity Voting in the 2000 Presidential Election in Poland” NCEEER topical paper, 2001.
The Re-polarization of Polish Politics in the Late 1990's,” NCEEER topical paper, 1998.
“Elektoraty w wyborach prezydenckich 1990: preferencje wyborcze 1995” [The 1990 presidential election constituencies and their 1995 voting preferences], CBOS Research Report No. 150/95 (in Polish).
home.wlu.edu /~jasiewiczk/miscellanea.htm   (664 words)

  
 Belarus Votes 2006 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Despite the recent string of "colored revolutions" that have ousted entrenched regimes in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, it is all but certain that the winner will be the current president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who is seeking an unprecedented third term....
A summary of key political and policy events from 1990 to the present.
Shepherd said he cannot predict the outcome of the election, but does believe the opposition could win a fair vote in Minsk.
www.rferl.org /specials/belarus_votes   (1058 words)

  
 Election Globe - World Election News
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DEREK PATTINSON was secretary-general of the General Synod of the Church of England from 1972 to 1990.
During those years he was seen by many as the most influential and...
archive.wn.com /2006/10/14/1400/electionglobe   (505 words)

  
 Poland 1990 Presidential Election
Stanislaw Tyminsky (Party X) Tadeusz Mazowiecki (PUSD - Polish Social Democratic Union)
Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (SdRP - Social Democracy of the Polish Republic)
# Source: Keesing's Record of World Events Vol 36 (1990): 37921.
www.binghamton.edu /cdp/era/elections/pol90pres.html   (76 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nuclear Weapons Deployment Authorization for FY 1989 and FY 1990
FY 1990 Aqueduct Nuclear Test Program (2 pages)
Nuclear Weapons Deployment Authorization for FY 1990 and FY 1991
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/directives.html   (519 words)

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