The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) won the most votes in the parliamentary elections held yesterday, Sunday, in Poland, but it failed to secure an absolute majority, according to the final official results announced today, which confirmed that the liberal, pro-European Union opposition is on course to form the next government.
Official results from 100% of constituencies give PiS, a nationalist, socially conservative party, with 35.38% of the vote, while the liberal Citizens Coalition (KO) follows in second place with 30.70%.
The center-right party Tritos Dromos came third with 14.40% and the New Left gathered 8.61% of the vote. The far-right Confederation secured 7.16% of the vote, according to the results.
The Citizens Coalition, the New Left and the Third Way have said they are ready to form a coalition government and that talks will begin once the official results are announced.
President Andrey Duda, a PiS ally, said before the election that he would give the first mandate to form a government to the party that wins the election, but PiS will struggle to find allies, with the Confederation likely to secure few seats that it does not will be enough to help.
The Civic Coalition and its allies are also expected to win a clear majority in parliament’s 100-member upper house, the Senate, which is elected by a simple majority, official results show.
The three opposition parties drew up a joint ballot for the upper house.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin today deemed an improvement in Russia’s relations with Warsaw “unlikely” after the pro-European opposition’s performance in parliamentary elections in Poland, which is among Ukraine’s main supporters in Europe.
“For now, it is unlikely, because there is probably no group in the Polish establishment that has mentioned, openly or covertly, the need to restore relations with Russia,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the state news agency. TASS.
“The Poles don’t love us, they don’t have friendly relations with us and they adopt a very, very hostile position on all issues that concern us,” said Peskov, who also assessed that it is “absurd that two neighboring states are so hostile one against the other”.
Relations between Russia and Poland have been strained for many years, and this animosity has not stopped intensifying since the Russian attack on Ukraine began in February 2022.
Poland is one of Kiev’s main political and military backers in Europe, although relations between the two countries have been going through a turbulent period in recent months.
Source: News Beast

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