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Law and Justice wins 235 seats in 460-seat Polish Parliament

Xinhua, October 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Polish National Election Commission announced Tuesday the final results of Sunday's parliamentary election. Law and Justice, which received over 37 per cent of all votes casted, obtains 235 seats in the 460-seat Polish Parliament.

Performance of other parties which will form the new parliament is as following: Civic Justice, 138 seats, Kukiz'15, 42, Modern, 28, and Polish People's Party, 16 seats. One seat goes to the representative of German ethnic minority.

The voter turnout in Sunday's election was 50.92 per cent.

These results mean that the Law and Justice will not have to form a coalition with any other political party. It also means that the Law and Justice will have both the President, Andrzej Duda (appointed in August 2015), and a majority in the Lower Chamber (Sejm) of the parliament.

The results also revealed that - for the first time since the 1989 democratic transition - there is no left wing party in parliament. Endit