Posted on 10/15/2023 4:25:48 PM PDT by FarCenter
WARSAW, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Poland's incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) party was narrowly ahead in Sunday's general election, exit polls showed, but the liberal opposition appeared to secure a majority, raising the possibility of an end to eight years of nationalist rule.
If the outcome is confirmed by official results, the vote would mark a massive turnaround for Warsaw, which has feuded with the European Union over the rule of law, media freedom, migration and LGBT rights since PiS came to power in 2015.
With war raging in neighbouring Ukraine and a migrant crisis brewing, Brussels and Washington have been watching the vote closely, although both PiS and its mainstream opposition support NATO-member Poland's key role in providing military and logistical support to Kyiv.
The Ipsos exit poll gave PiS 36.8% of the vote, which would translate into 200 lawmakers in the 460-seat parliament.
Opposition parties, led by the liberal Civic Coalition (KO), were projected to together win 248 seats, with the KO seen winning 31.6% of ballots cast.
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Crap.
Terrible news.
Poland wants to lose again?
Some elections still have consequences.
Does this mean Hungary stands alone as far as a common sense country?
Maybe the CIA has finally screwed with the Polish elections too. Nationalists are just people who want to govern themselves. Anti-nationalist is another world for elitist.
LORD have mercy!
Wow… just in time for the coming wave of “refugees” from Gaza. Way to go, Polish voters.
Donald Franciszek Tusk (/tʊsk/ TUUSK, Polish: [ˈdɔnalt fraɲˈt͡ɕiʂɛk ˈtusk] ⓘ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Civic Platform party (PO) since 2021. He was a co-founder of the party and its leader previously in years 2003 to 2014.[1] He served as the Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019.[2] Tusk was also the president of the European People’s Party (EPP) in years 2019–2022.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tusk
Likely Prime Minister again.
Civic Coalition agenda is more war agains Russia. And more faggotry.
That doesn’t seem like a good combination.
Tusk is a traitor.
The right in both Poland and Hungary are hurting due to their anti-Ukraine/pro-Russia positions. Regardless of party, a lot of their people are scared/terrified of Russia and they want Russia stopped and not appeased. This much is not a partisan issue for most Eastern Europeans.
And I say this as someone who has long supported both conservative governments.
Oh no…they’ll be overrun with third world crap. I hate to hear this.
So much for solidarity.
Once they increase their strength with massive diversity they will realize they may have made a mistake.
Doesn’t sound like good newski.
Once they increase their strength with massive diversity they will realize they may have made a mistake. How much money has our Deep State Department spent to influence this election?
They also had several referendums on the ballot. Is there any news on how those came out? One of them was about allowing more ‘migration.’
An exit poll after today’s national referendum, which was held simultaneously with parliamentary elections, suggests that not enough people voted for it to be valid.
That would be a blow to the government, which called the referendum and included questions on the EU’s migration policies, among other issues. The exit poll for the elections also indicates that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has lost power.
Whereas turnout for the elections was a record high of 72.9%, according to pollster Ipsos, for the referendum it was only 40%. For a referendum to be binding, the figure must be above 50%. The official results are expected to be confirmed by Tuesday at the latest.
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