Polish conservative re-election hinges on regional vote
(WorldNews Europe)

If Poland´s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party can translate its looming general election triumph on Sunday into a second term in office, it will be because of towns like Lowicz. Just 80km west of Warsaw, the frantic, liberal capital, is a conservative, cobblestoned church-filled home to 25,000 people, vast fields of fruit and vegetable production and Poland´s third-largest dairy co-op. Two major historic figures have passed this way: Napoleon spent the night here in 1806, fresh from victory in Jena; in 1999 Pope John Paul II praised Lowicz as home for centuries of Polish primates. Lowicz is known as an electoral bellwether that reflects national results and, like the country, was once...