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Dzień dobry, everyone! Welcome to the travel log of my time in Gdańsk, Poland. As many of you know, I was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Poland for the 2007-2008 academic year. My grant is part of the Fulbright Scholarship program. For the next year, I will be an assistant English language instructor at Gdańsk University.

This log will serve as an online journal for me where I will document my life abroad, and friends and family will be able to regularly check my status. Pictures from my life and a handy map of my world are also available among the links to the right. If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact me via email at wadoli@gmail.com or comment on specific posts.

- Will

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Election Day

National elections are being held today that will decide the makeup of Parliament for the coming years. Every single seat in both houses of Parliament, 100 in the Senate and 460 in the Sejm, will be up for grabs. Articles about it are available at CNN and Al Jazeera.

In short, the ruling coalition led by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) broke apart, forcing Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to call elections two years early. PiS, a nationalist, right-center party, is being challenged by the less conservative Civic Platform (PO) and a coalition of leftist parties called the Left and Democrats (LiD). LiD is led by the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and contains former communist elements. Also in the running are the Polish People's (or Peasants', depending on where you are) Party (PSL), the League of Polish Families (LPR), the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland party (SRP), and the Polish Labor Party (PPP).

More information on the election is available at Wikipedia, though I will post the results when they come in.
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