WARSAW (Reuters): Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to rule for two successive terms after his centre-right Civic Platform trounced its rivals in a parliamentary election. An exit poll showed Tusk’s pro-business party had won nearly 40 percent of votes in Sunday’s election, short of an absolute majority but far ahead of Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party on just over 30 percent. Financial markets will welcome Tusk’s victory, which points to four more years of relative political and economic stability in the European Union’s largest eastern member state at a time of deepening crisis in the euro zone. Final…
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