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Foreign minister Radek Sikorski, a leading member of Tusk's party, called the party's showing "confirmation that our concept of European cooperation and modernisation of Poland is finding approval."

Donald Tusk set for unprecedented second term as Polish prime minister 2011

Mr. Tusk's budget plan also includes less state support to more-affluent families with children, and an increase in taxes on mining companies and on university lecturers, journalists and artists.

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Without backing from at least some Law and Justice lawmakers, which now seems very unlikely, Mr. Tusk's coalition won't be able to ratify any new EU treaty in the parliament—something that under the Polish constitution requires a two-thirds majority of the lower house.

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One exit poll gave Tusk's party nearly 40% support, well ahead of its main challenger, the conservative Law and Justice party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Donald Tusk set for unprecedented second term as Polish prime minister 2011

Tusk's apparent re-election makes his party the first ever to win two consecutive terms since the fall of communism in 1989.

Donald Tusk set for unprecedented second term as Polish prime minister 2011

An exit poll conducted jointly for Polish public broadcaster TVP and commercial network TVN 24 showed Mr. Tusk's Civic Platform with 39.6% of the vote, compared with 30.1% for its main rival, the socially conservative Law and Justice Party led by former Premier Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Poland's PM Wins New Term Gordon Fairclough 2011

As Europe's economic woes have increasingly been felt here, dissatisfaction with Mr. Tusk's generally probusiness government has mounted, allowing Mr. Kaczynski's party, whose base has traditionally been older Poles in rural areas, to gain some ground in public-opinion surveys.

Poland's PM Wins New Term Gordon Fairclough 2011

There's always Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's advice, issued last week in response to a German call for Poland to cancel the construction of two new nuclear plants: "We can't succumb to hysteria about it."

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WARSAW—Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist political party was headed toward victory in parliamentary elections Sunday, setting the country on a course of deepening ties with its European neighbors amid the Continent's economic crisis.

Poland's PM Wins New Term Gordon Fairclough 2011

Tusk's apparent victory comes after he has presided over four years of impressive economic growth.

Donald Tusk set for unprecedented second term as Polish prime minister 2011