Polish Premier Hails ‘Huge’ Mandate to Complete Remake of Nation
- Law & Justice maintains majority in lower house, loses Senate
- Party campaigned on welfare handouts, spurning liberal values
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Poland’s ruling nationalists clinched another four years in power to build a modern welfare state and complete a drive to impose their conservative ideology on all walks of life.
Riding a wave of support built on family handouts as well as the vilification of gays and the rejection of multiculturalism as an affront to traditional Catholic values, the Law & Justice party won Sunday’s election to keep its majority in the powerful lower house of parliament, according to almost complete results.