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Monday, October 26, 2015

2015 Polish parliamentary election Sunday Oct 25,2015

The 2015 Parliamentary elections to both the Seim (460 Seats)and Senate(100 Seats) is scheduled to be held on Sunday Oct 25,2015

It was the first European election since the Norwegian Parliamentary Election,1993, where the two largest parties fielded a female candidate, and the second election in history (also since Norway 1993) where the largest three parties fielded female candidates.
Civic Platform(PO) -Ewa Kopacz
Law and Justice(PiS) - Beata Szydio
United Left (ZL) - Barbara Nowacka

Poland's opposition Law and Justice party - conservative and Eurosceptic - has won parliamentary elections.
The election was won by the largest opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) with 37.6% of the vote against the governing Civic Platform (PO), who achieved 24.1%
Official results, announced on 27 October, gave the conservative Law and Justice Party a majority, with 235 of 460 seats (51 %)and Civic Platform got only 138 seats
 Beata Szydlo  is now designated Prime Minister
Its leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski claimed victory, and the outgoing Prime Minister, Ewa Kopacz of the centrist Civic Platform, admitted defeat.
Law and Justice (PiS) has strong support in poorer, rural areas.
If the numbers suggested by the exit poll are confirmed, it will be the first time since democracy was restored in Poland in 1989 that a single party has won enough seats to govern alone

Prime Ministerial candidate Beata Szydlo said she was grateful for the support of the Polish people.
"We have won because we have been consistent in facing all the challenges ahead of us and we followed in the footsteps of the late President Lech Kaczynski," she said.
"We wouldn't have won had it not been for the Polish people who told us about their expectations and needs, and who in the end voted for us."

After eight years in office many Poles had grown weary of the governing centrist Civic Platform's unfulfilled promises, scandals and what was perceived by some to be an aloof attitude.

Law and Justice won big because they offered simple, concrete policies for the many in Poland that feel untouched by the country's impressive economic growth. It offered higher child care benefits and tax breaks for the less well-off.

Law and Justice also stuck with its winning formula of presenting a more moderate face than its rather combative leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who's not afraid to accuse his political opponents of standing on the side of former communist police or claim that migrants bring dangerous diseases with them.
In this case that moderate face belongs to Beata Szydlo, a 52-year-old miner's daughter and avid reader, who will become the country's next prime minister.



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