2023-10-15 21:44:05
Donald Tusk, the leader of the pro-European opposition in Poland, claims victory for the centrist coalition on October 15, 2023. JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP
Donald Tusk, who leads the centrist opposition coalition in Poland, claimed victory in the legislative elections on Sunday evening, October 15. According to exit polls, the pro-European opposition won a parliamentary majority, beating the populists of the currently ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and the far right combined.
According to these projections, the three centrist opposition parties, Donald Tusk’s Citizens’ Coalition (KO), the Third Way Christian Democrats and the Left, together won 248 seats in the 460-member parliament, compared to 212 seats for PiS and the Confederation (far right) combined.
“Poland won, democracy won, we chased them out of power (…) it’s the end of this bad period, it’s the end of PiS rule”declared Donald Tusk immediately after the publication of the polls.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told a rally at the party’s headquarters in central Warsaw that he did not immediately know whether Sunday’s results would lead to a new government mandate.
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