The leader of Poland’s main opposition party Law and Justice Jaroslaw Kaczynski addresses after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw.—Reuters photo
Poland’s eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS) claimed victory on Sunday in a watershed election that risks putting the ex-communist state on a collision course with key European Union allies.
Run by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech, PiS secured 38 per cent of the vote, enough to govern alone and well ahead of the incumbent, staunchly pro-EU Civic Platform (PO) at 23.4 per cent, said pollster IPSOS.
If the exit poll is correct, the victory …read more
Source: New Age
