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“Poland’s election result was on a knife edge as an exit poll said that the governing Law and Justice party won the most votes on Sunday but lost support compared to the last election. Opposition leader Donald Tusk said a coalition of opposition parties had enough votes to win the election.
The Ipsos exit poll suggested that the opposition together has likely won 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, the Sejm. Law and Justice, according to the projection, obtained 200 seats, while the far-right Confederation got 12 seats.”
AP
“At the Civic Coalition headquarters, at Warsaw’s Ethnographical Museum, Donald Tusk has appeared on stage just minutes after voting had finished to declare victory.
“It’s the end of the evil times, it’s the end of the Pis rule, we made it, he said, to cheers from assembled supporters.
“We won democracy, we won freedom, we won our free beloved Poland… This day will be remembered in history as a bright day, the rebirth of Poland,” he said.
The exit poll indeed seems to show a route for the joint opposition to form a coalition and no route for PiS, but exit polls can be wrong, as the vote in Slovakia earlier this month showed.”
The Guardian
Foreign Policy
The Ipsos exit poll suggested that the opposition together has likely won 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, the Sejm. Law and Justice, according to the projection, obtained 200 seats, while the far-right Confederation got 12 seats.”
AP
“At the Civic Coalition headquarters, at Warsaw’s Ethnographical Museum, Donald Tusk has appeared on stage just minutes after voting had finished to declare victory.
“It’s the end of the evil times, it’s the end of the Pis rule, we made it, he said, to cheers from assembled supporters.
“We won democracy, we won freedom, we won our free beloved Poland… This day will be remembered in history as a bright day, the rebirth of Poland,” he said.
The exit poll indeed seems to show a route for the joint opposition to form a coalition and no route for PiS, but exit polls can be wrong, as the vote in Slovakia earlier this month showed.”
The Guardian
Admittedly, an opposition victory would not be a silver bullet for Poland’s relationship with the EU. Mistrust about Germany’s and France’s approach to Russia runs deep, and any Polish government is likely to be wary of any EU initiatives that it believes could jeopardize Warsaw’s relationship with Washington. Finally, even if the Civic Coalition is able to form a government, it may need to work with coalition partnersthat hold a more skeptical approach toward Brussels. Nonetheless, a fresh approach to Poland’s EU partners by a Civic Coalition-led government would significantly widen the window for further EU integration.
Foreign Policy