Poland's ruling pro-EU wing passes local election test

(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, APR 8 - Poland's governing pro-European coalition parties came out top in local elections Sunday seen as a first test since the group's landmark win in a general election last year, exit polls said. The right-wing Law and Justice (PiS), which governed for years before losing power to the pro-EU alliance of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, won the most votes for a single party at 33.7 percent, according to the IPSOS institute. Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition (KO) won 31.9 percent, while its allies, the Christian-Democratic Third Way movement and the Left, scored 13.5 percent and 6.8 percent respectively. (ANSA-AFP).