In Sunday's Polish parliamentary elections, the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party won 36.8 percent of the votes, according to exit polls announced after the polls closed, while the main opposition force, the Civic Coalition (KO) received 31.6 percent of the votes. .
According to surveys conducted by the pollster Ipsos among those who left the polling stations, Third Way (Trzecia Droga), also in the opposition, would finish in third place with 13 percent of the votes.
The entry threshold would also be crossed by the New Left (Nowa Lewica) with 8.6 percent of the votes, as well as the alliance of the national radical and neoliberal parties, the Confederation (Konfederacja, 6.2 percent).
The pollster Ipsos, which conducted the survey, assumes a statistical error of 2 percent.
Based on the results of the exit polls, PiS would receive 200 mandates, KO 163 mandates, Third Way 55 mandates, New Left 30 mandates, and the Confederation 12 mandates in the 460-member lower house. The final distribution of mandates will be known based on the election results, presumably on Tuesday.
The participation rate in the elections was a record high of 72.9 percent.
"This is a great success for our party and Poland. We will not let Poland be betrayed!" - said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president of PiS, after the announcement of the exit poll results.
“Thank you ladies and gentlemen! Thank you very much! The first results of the vote represent the fourth victory in the history of our party. The fourth victory in the parliamentary elections and the third in a row. This is a great success for our party and a success for Poland," Kaczynski said.
The question, however, is "whether this success can be turned into another government period," said the party chairman.
"Regardless of whether we are in power or in opposition, we will implement our plan. And we will not let Poland be betrayed! For Poland to lose what is most valuable in the history of our nation, its independence, the right to decide its own destiny," he added.
He stressed: regardless of the final voting results, the association will do everything to continue to implement its program.
Donald Tusk, the president of the KO, admitted: "his dreams were even more ambitious", but the election "marks the end of the bad times, the PiS government".
MTI
Hungarian Nation
