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Poles to elect President

WARSAW: Polish campaigning ended on Saturday as voters in the former Soviet bloc country prepared to pick a President in an election underlining the decline of the former Communists. The two leading contenders, Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski, have their roots in the Solidarity movement of the 1980s and have campaigned on promises to cleanse the state of corruption and the influence of former Communists. Sunday's vote seems bound to echo the defeat of the governing former Communists in September 25 parliamentary elections. The parties of the leading presidential candidates, winners in that parliamentary ballot, are in coalition talks to form a new right-leaning government. The last opinion poll before the presidential election gave a slim advantage to Mr. Tusk, an advocate of free-market economics and a member of the pro-business Civic Platform. — AP

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