Poland’s leading Law and Justice party launched formal coalition talks on Monday, with a strengthened hand a day after its candidate, Lech Kaczynski, won the presidency. Kaczynski won with 54% of Sunday’s vote, compared with 46% for opponent Donald Tusk, of the pro-market Civic Platform party.

Television reporter Waldemar Milewicz, killed in Iraq on Friday along with his producer, was Poland’s best-known war correspondent and the winner of numerous journalism awards for his reporting from Chechnya, Afghanistan and other conflict zones. Poland’s president called Milewicz’s death a loss for the entire nation.