Poland Hands Unprecedented Ballot Win to Conservative Party
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Poland Moves to Right in Majority Election Vote
Poland’s opposition Law & Justice party is on course for an election victory unprecedented in the country’s modern history after pledging a tougher stance on refugees and more state control over the economy.
Law & Justice won 37.6 percent of the vote to 24.1 percent for the ruling Civic Platform, according to results published Monday by the election commission, which will announce the allocation of parliamentary seats Tuesday. Projections based on exit polls and partial results showed Law & Justice with 232 seats in the 460-member lower chamber, the first time that a single group will command a majority since Poland returned to democracy in 1989. Three other parties cleared the threshold for representation, with none of the leftist groups that succeeded the communists winning parliament seats for the first time since the country broke free of Soviet control.