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Article: Poland set for run-off polls.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- October 22, 2005
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Byline: MARY SIBIERSKI Deutsche Presse Agentur
WARSAW - Both have political roots in the 1980s Solidarity anti-communist opposition, but ahead of Poland's Sunday presidential face-off that is where the similarities end between the congenial liberal free-marketeer Donald Tusk and the combative nationalist and welfare state champion Lech Kaczynski.
Tusk's promise of a modern and open forwardlooking free-market "Poland to be proud of" scored the current deputy speaker of parliament a narrow October 9 first round victory.
He racked up 36.3 percent of the votes ahead of Warsaw Mayor Kaczynski, who garnered 33.1 percent backing for his stubborn ...