Poland’s ruling National Conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) achieved a great victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Exit polls suggest that the right-wing party garnered 45.8 percent of the national vote, which will allow it to rule with an absolute majority in the Polish parliament, the Sejm, for the next four years. Trailing behind Law and Justice (PiS) with about half as many votes... 

Poland’s ruling conservatives led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party would win 38 percent of the vote if elections were to be held this week, according to a new poll. The country’s governing United Right coalition brings together Law and Justice, Jarosław Gowin’s Porozumienie (Alliance) party and Zbigniew Ziobro’s Solidarna Polska (United Poland) grouping. Support for the ruling conservatives... 

Some 30 million Poles are eligible to vote in the elections Voting stations across Poland opened Sunday for municipal elections in which 48,000 regional leaders were to be elected. The elections are regarded as a political barometer ahead of parliamentary elections in 2011. Local elections in Poland have opened across the country, in a key test for the government ahead of parliamentary elections next... 

Poland’s president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended. The new law says that people who posses, purchase or spread items or recordings containing communist symbols could be fined or be imprisoned for up two years. The new law has drawn criticism from left-wing lawmakers...