Polish election could break twins grip on power

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

WARSAW (AFP) — Poles on Sunday voted in a general election which could see the liberal opposition win power from the outspokenly conservative Kaczynski twins.

Opposition parties have seized on the strained ties with neighbouring Germany and the rest of Europe that have marked the rule of President Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

With the liberal Civic Platform (PO) seen gaining votes, the prime minister apologised for political errors he has made in a key speech before campaigning ended.

"I know we made mistakes. I apologise for them," Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in a last-minute attempt to reach out to critics as canvassing closed on Friday night.

The Kaczynski brothers' Law and Justice (PiS) party...