Poles voted Sunday in a parliamentary election…
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Days before the election, party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski even warned that migrants could carry “protozoa and parasites” and other diseases that could be unsafe to Europeans.
Local television channels predicted the PiS scored 238 out of 460 seats in the lower house of parliament, ousting the PO liberals, who took 135 seats. It was unclear when official results will be released.
Law and Justice has strong support in Poland’s rural areas.
She says “we are the same as our countrymen…. We must always remember that we are serving”.
The daughter of a miner and a social worker, Szydlo has marketed herself as a woman of the people who understands the struggles of ordinary Poles as an economic boom left many behind.
Interpreter Slawomir Krantz, 49, voted for Civic Platform, which he described as a “lesser evil”, because he fears other parties might spoil the stability Poland has achieved. Among his proposals is a lower flat tax of 16 percent on personal income, corporations and as a sales tax.
Writing for OpenEurope.org, Swidlicki said if the exit polls proved correct and PiS won enough seats for an overall majority, it would be the first party to have done so in post-Communist times.
Exit polls covering 90 percent of polling stations showed three smaller parties, including the leftwing alliance that grew out of the pre-1989 Communist Party, teetering on the edge of the threshold for entering parliament. Exit polls will be available immediately after voting ends.
Poland’s conservative opposition Law and Justice party has won parliamentary elections with 39 percent of the vote, enough to govern alone without forming a coalition.
Two left-wing forces had been in the running: United Left, a coalition of several parties, and a new party, Together.
His sibling died aboard a presidential jet that crashed in Smolensk, western Russian Federation, in 2010. He served as prime minister in 2006-7 while Lech was president.
He also said his party would govern the country with humility despite its decisive win.
The results must still be confirmed but it appeared that Law and Justice has a chance to form a majority government.
The British prime minister, David Cameron, has in the past expressed support for Law and Justice and has included his Conservative party in the same European parliament grouping, but the Polish shift to the right may not necessarily be supportive of his efforts to renegotiate Britains relationship with the EU. The ruling Civic Platform, which oversaw a 24 per cent expansion of Poland’s economy over its eight years in power, the European Union’s fastest growth, came second with 23.4 per cent and 133 seats. President Andrzej Duda, elected earlier this year, is also from PiS. That marks a setback for Europe’s ambitions for ever greater monetary union given the importance of Poland’s economy, the largest in Central Europe, the sixth-largest in the bloc and one that is developing fast.
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Voter turnout was estimated at 51.6%. While Poland’s currency, stocks and bonds have underperformed emerging-market peers amid investor concern that the opposition will erode profitability of banks or overextend government spending, analysts at banks including UniCredit and PKO Bank Polski expect markets to rebound following the vote.
Retired physicist Adam Jadacki said he and his wife Janina voted for a new pro-business party called Nowoczesna (Modern) “because it is the only sensible and rational party, free of emotions and of political infighting”.
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“One of the first economic decisions of the new government will be to submit an amendment of next year’s budget”, Zbigniew Kuzmiuk said. They weren’t young people or graduates from the major cities.
