Monday, October 16, 2023

A chance that Poland may have a change of government

Maybe good news for Europe and democracy.

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk said that three opposition parties had sufficient votes to win the general election on Sunday after an exit poll projected that they had enough combined support to oust Law and Justice, the governing conservative nationalist party.

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. 

“I am the happiest man on earth,” Tusk said. “Democracy has won. Poland has won.”

But no official result until tomorrow.


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