POLAND: Komorowski Wins Party Nomination For President.

AP/    Parliamentary Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski won 68.5% of the Civic Platform Party's vote, defeating Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski for a presidential run. The vote followed a decision by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the party’s chairman, not to enter the race. The turnout was 47.5%, more than 21,000 of the total  Civic Platofrm party members.

POLAND: Profile Of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

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For years Tusk was seen by many as a political operator, who avoided hard work and dodged any ministerial appointments in previous center-right governments. His greatest joy seemed to be playing soccer with his buddies. But part of Tusk's success stems from who he is not, namely his predecessor, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Tusk’s Civic Platform Party approval rating has risen to 53% support — more or less the position it has held over the last two years — while Kaczynski’s Law and Justice has been unable to break through more than a quarter of the electorate.

Polish Sports Minister Resigns In Scandal.

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Poland's Sports minister, Miroslaw Drzewiecki, tendered his resignation after his name appeared on transcripts in connection with an anticorruption investigation with the code name Operation Blackjack.
He said he resigned because he didn't want the scandal to be used against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Civic Platform party’s government.
The new law is intended to raise taxes on the gambling industry to help cover the costs of the European soccer championships, which Poland will host along with Ukraine in 2012.