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| | ABC News: Poland's President-Elect Praises U.S. |
 | | President elected Lech Kaczynski, right, and outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski smile during a ceremony at which the official results of the Sunday presidential election were announced, naming Kaczynski as Poland's next president, in Warsaw, Monday Oct. 24, 2005. |
 | | Kaczynski, the socially conservative mayor of Warsaw who believes in capitalism with a safety net, won Sunday's presidential runoff race with 54 percent of the vote, defeating lawmaker Donald Tusk of the pro-market Civic Platform party. |
 | | While Poland's prime minister wields most executive power, the president can propose and veto laws, commands the armed forces and represents the country abroad. |
| abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1245831 (414 words) |
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