The majority of voters in Poland's general election supported opposition parties that promised to reverse democratic backsliding and repair the nation's…
An exit poll by Ipsos and partial results suggested that voters had grown tired of the governing nationalist Law and Justice party after eight years of divisive policiesAfter a bitter and emotional campaign, turnout was projected at almost 74%, the highest level in the country's 34 years of democracy and surpassing the 63% who turned out in the historic 1989 vote that toppled communism. In the city of Wroclaw, the lines were so long that voting continued through the night until nearly 3 a.m.
“I am really overjoyed now," Magdalena Chmieluk, a 43-year-old accountant, said Monday morning. The opposition"will form a government and we will finally be able to live in a normal country, for real.” Douglas Wake, the head of the mission, called it troubling that"the ruling party and its candidates gained a clear advantage from the misuse of state resources, undermining the separation between state and party.”
Still, Poles on Monday were facing weeks of political uncertainty. Law and Justice won more votes than any single party and said it would try to build a new government led by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. There were rumors that Law and Justice would try to hold onto power by seeking an ally in the agrarian PSL party, a frequent kingmaker in past governments. Its leader ruled that out, noting it had run in a coalition with the Third Way group promising to oust the ruling party.
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