Law and Justice may not be able to form a government successfully, leaving the door open to grouping led by Donald Tusk
Jarosław Kaczyński, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Law and Justice party , and the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, with supporters at party HQ on 15 October. PiS is on a 36.8% share, according to exit polls.Jarosław Kaczyński, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Law and Justice party , and the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, with supporters at party HQ on 15 October. PiS is on a 36.8% share, according to exit polls.
The exit poll put PiS on 36.8%, and Tusk’s Civic Coalition on 31.6%. However, two groups that could form a coalition with Tusk also did well, with 13% for the centre-right Third Way and 8.6% for the left-wing Lewica. In a bitterly divisive campaign over recent months, both sides have painted the vote as being of decisive importance for the future of Poland. Tusk had described the election as “the last chance” to stop PiS from doing irreparable damage to Polish democracy., restricted abortion rights and demonised LGBTQ+ people, migrants and refugees. It has also put Poland on a collision course with Brussels over rule of law issues, which has led to tens of billions of euros in European funding being frozen.
Earlier in the day, at one polling station in Wola district, opposition voters expressed confidence at the chances for an opposition victory. There were also long queues at Polish consulates abroad, with more than 600,000 Poles living outside the country registering to vote. On social media, people shared photographs and videos of long queues in various cities: one personAlongside the election, the government held a referendum, which asked four leading questions, including two on migration. One asked if people agree with “the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa”.
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