AFPDonald Tusk on Sunday evening after announcing the exit poll
NOS News•today, 10:23•Changed today, 10:41
The Polish PiS party received significantly fewer votes in Sunday’s elections than last time, but remains the largest party in parliament. Now that all votes have been counted, the current ruling party emerges as victorious 35.4 percent of the votes, slightly less than had emerged from Sunday evening’s exit poll. The nationalist-conservative party stood at 36.8 percent.
The chance that PiS can form a coalition seems very small. The party was excluded in advance by many parties. Also by the other right-wing party that has reached the electoral threshold: Confederation. That extreme right-wing party gets 7.2 percent.
Opportunity for opposition
The country’s second party, the Civic Platform of former Prime Minister Donald Tusk, therefore seems more likely to form a government. Tusk’s pro-European party received 30.7 percent of the votes, more than 3 percentage points more than in 2019. Other moderate parties also did well: the center-right and pro-European TD received 14.4 percent and the left-wing party coalition Lewica 8 .6 percent.
Together they have 53.7 percent and, according to the Polish public broadcaster, they have 249 seats. 231 seats are needed for a majority in the Polish parliament.
The final turnout was over 74 percent, pulverizing the record from 1989 (63 percent).
Polish voters could also go to the polls in the Netherlands. She voted an overwhelming majority for Pro-European opposition parties. Civic Platform (43.6 percent), Lewica (20.1 percent) and TD (12.5 percent) together received more than three-quarters of the voters. PiS received only 8.1 percent, the far-right Confederation 13.3 percent.
2023-10-17 08:23:31
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