Poland's Law and Justice party sweeps to stunning election win

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Poland’s Law and Justice party sweeps to stunning election win

WARSAW: -- The Polish opposition Law and Justice party has defied the opinion polls and is claiming a stunning victory with nearly 40% of the vote according to exit polls, enough to govern alone.

Pre-vote polls suggested it would get around 30%, requiring some tricky coalition-building.

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz will give way to another woman, Beata Szydło, dubbed by some the “iron lady”.

Exit polls suggest the outgoing Civic Platform has crashed to just over 23%.

The result is a stinging reverse for Civic Platform, which delivered an economy that grew by 50% during its eight years in power, but voters instead bridled at EU demands Poland take Syrian refugees, among other things. The country is fiercely Catholic and one of the most homogeneous in Europe, and Law and Justice is Catholic, conservative, and eurosceptic.


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[Scott]

A racist post has been removed.

[godden]

Good to see, i hope it's contagious.

[amdy2206]

It's strange that such a eurosceptic country is the nationality which makes up most of the immigrants in England!!! They want their population to work overseas in Europe to send money back but don't want anything else.

[sean in udon]

Economy grown 50% in 8 years.

Middle finger to the EU about the refugees.

Working in the richer EU countries and making (or perhaps milking; maybe both) good money.

Most people want their cake and eat it too. Seems like the Poles have actually done it.

Nice to read a success story.