Poland opposition leader says coalition has enough votes to unseat ruling party

WARSAW, Poland — Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk said that three opposition parties had sufficient votes to win the general election on Sunday after an exit poll projected that they had enough combined support to oust Law and Justice, the governing conservative nationalist party.

“The question before us is whether this success will be able to be turned into another term of office of our government, and we don’t know that yet. But we must have hope and we must also know that regardless of whether we are in power or in the opposition, we will implement this project in different ways,” Kaczynski said.

Law and Justice has eroded checks and balances to gain more control over state institutions, including the courts, public media and the electoral process itself. There is also a high level of state ownership in the Polish economy, and the governing party has built up a system of patronage, handing out thousands of jobs and contracts to its loyalists.

While Poland has been a staunch ally of Ukraine and a transit hub for Western weapons, relations chilled over the Ukrainian grain that entered Poland’s market.

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