2023-10-17 10:14:05
According to the official results on Tuesday, the ruling national-conservative PiS party became the strongest force in the parliamentary elections in Poland, but lost the majority in the House of Representatives, the Sejm. After all constituencies were counted, the PiS (“Law and Justice”) received 35.38 percent of the votes.
That is a good eight percentage points less than in the previous election in 2019. At that time, the party led by Jarosław Kaczyński still had a voter share of 43.6 percent and has since been able to govern alone with the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The liberal “Citizens’ Coalition” (KO), led by opposition leader Donald Tusk, became the second strongest force with 30.7 percent of the vote, improving by around four percentage points. The centrist electoral alliance “Third Way” got 14.4 percent, the left got 8.61 percent.
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These three forces had already announced before the election on Sunday that they wanted to work together after the election. According to the electoral commission, they have a majority of 248 out of 460 seats in the new Sejm.
The extreme right-wing “Confederation” achieved 7.16 percent and thus remained below expectations, which assumed that this party would make significant gains.
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