POLAND: THE LAW AND JUSTICE AND THE CIVIC PLATFORM PARTIES SHARE PLATFORM IN WARSAW AHEAD OF THIS WEEKEND'S GENERAL ELECTION.

Record ID: 584757

  • Title: POLAND: THE LAW AND JUSTICE AND THE CIVIC PLATFORM PARTIES SHARE PLATFORM IN WARSAW AHEAD OF THIS WEEKEND'S GENERAL ELECTION.
  • Date: 23rd September 2005
  • Summary: (BN12) WARSAW, POLAND (SEPTEMBER 23, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WS: OF WARSAW STREET. 0.05 2. CU: OF CAMPAIGN POSTERS. 0.10 3. WS: PEOPLE BUYING VEGETABLES AT MARKET STAND. 0.16 4. SCU: OF WOMAN AT MARKET STALL PUTTING GROCERIES INTO A BAG. 0.22 5. SCU: WOMAN BUYING FRUIT. 0.31 6. CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER FROM THE 'LAW AND JUSTICE' PARTY JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI AT A NEWS CONFERENCE 7. WS: FOOD AND ARTICLES DISPLAYED DURING CONFERENCE. 0.36 8. CU: FOODSTUFF AND GROCERIES. (2 SHOTS) 0.46 9. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI, 'LAW AND JUSTICE' CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER, SAYING: "The competition in these elections will not serve easy negotiations. We also think that they will conclude after the elections, that's when some things will clear out. I think that the second round of presidential elections will be like a referendum concerning this question I made today: either the solidarity option, in the social sense, or the very liberal option proposed now by the Civic Platform. The society will be able to answer." 1.18 10. MV: MEDIA. 1.23 11. WS: KACZYNSKI TALKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE. 1.28 12. CU: POSTER FOR DONALD TUSK, 'CIVIC PLATFORM' CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. 1.31 13. WS: 'CIVIC PLATFORM' CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, DONALD TUSK, WALKS IN WITH THE 'CIVIC PLATFORM' CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER, JAN ROKITA, PAST THE POSTER. 1.41 14. MV: MEDIA AND MEMBERS OF THE CIVIC PLATFORM PARTY. 1.44 15. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) 'CIVIC PLATFORM' CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER, JAN ROKITA SAYING: "These last weeks have convinced me that in any case this moment is a historical one for Poland. This is a moment when undoubtedly the post-communist era is ending before our eyes. The people and formation that have been ruling Poland for all these years will finally pass into history. And this is in my view a moment of great hope that from this moment on Poland can be a really decent country." 2.17 16. MV/PULL IN: TUSK AND ROKITA HUGGING EACH OTHER. 2.28 17. WS: PEOPLE CLAPPING TUSK AND ROKITA PAN TO TUSK AND ROKITA. 2.36 18. CU: 'CIVIC PLATFORM' POSTER. 2.38 19. CU: THEIR HANDS HELD HIGH TOGETHER, PULL OUT OF TUSK AND ROKITA WAVING THEIR HANDS IN THE AIR. 2.48 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th October 2005 13:00
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  • Location: WARSAW, POLAND
  • Country: Poland
  • Reuters ID: LVA998P9K36WZIKEJQTKMA75LQN0
  • Story Text: Polish rightists say sorry to offended allies.



    Poland's conservatives extended an olive branch to
    their likely ruling partners on Friday (September 23, 2005) after
    apparently managing to snatch some of their potential
    supporters before this weekend's general elections.

    The conservative Law and Justice and the free-market
    Civic Platform look poised for a sweeping victory in the
    vote, with surveys showing the scandal-tainted ruling left
    will be all but wiped out. In the campaign, the
    conservatives portrayed themselves as the main defenders of
    the welfare state, accusing the Civic Platform of being
    free-market zealots who would cater for the rich at the
    expense of the poor.

    "The competition in these elections will not serve easy
    negotiations. We also think that they will conclude after
    the elections, that's when some things will clear out," Law
    and Justice chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski told a news
    conference. "I think that the second round of presidential
    elections will be like a referendum concerning this
    question I made today: either the solidarity option, in the
    social sense, or the very liberal option proposed now by
    the Civic Platform. The society will be able to answer."
    Civic Platform leaders accused the conservatives of
    using scare tactics to discredit their reform plans and
    warned their would-be partners not to jeopardise their
    future joint rule.

    The conservatives trailed behind the Civic Platform
    only a week ago but their relentless attack on their plan
    to introduce a 15 percent flat tax seemed to have swayed
    some undecided voters, sociologists say.

    Latest surveys put the two parties neck-and-neck before
    the campaign blackout starts at midnight on Friday.

    Financial markets, which earlier sent the zloty and
    Polish stocks to record highs, pulled back this week,
    fearing that reforms Poland needs to catch up with its
    richer European Union peers would be diluted if Law and
    Justice won.

    The conservatives vow responsible fiscal policies and
    want to lower taxes but not as much as their free-market
    rivals. They have promised trade unions not to liberalise
    the labour code.



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