Free Republic

This Sunday's election result in the race for the Polish presidency will have a strong impact in Europe -- especially if it can help boost momentum for bureaucratic reform and free-market economics. After winning the first round of the presidential balloting, Donald Tusk, of the free-market Civic Platform party, lost in the runoff. His party came in close second in the parliamentary election with a 15 percent flat tax proposal as one of its main messages. But despite the loss, free-market supporters can take some comfort in his showing. Many of the voters who in the end chose Lech Kaczynski...

The political descendants of the Solidarity trade union, which set into motion the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War, are poised to return to power in Poland for the first time in a decade in the political wilderness. Parliamentary elections will be held Sunday, with a presidential vote to follow two weeks later. The parliamentary ballot is expected to mark the end of the Democratic Left Alliance's and close out the career of Kwasniewski. The left-wing leadership likely will be replaced by a pro-market government, as two conservative parties are far ahead of...