Eight years of rule under the right-wing Law and Justice party could soon come to an end.

Sejm (lower house) votes as of 100% votes counted):

  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Right) - 35,38%
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (Centre) - 30,70%
  • Trzecia Droga (Centre-Right) - 14,40%
  • Nowa Lewica (Centre-Left) - 8,61%
  • Konfederacja (Far Right) - 7,16%

Up to date results: https://wybory.gov.pl/sejmsenat2023/pl/sejm/wynik/pl

Sejm (lower house) seats as of 100% votes counted:

  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Right) - 194
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (Centre) - 157
  • Trzecia Droga (Centre-Right) - 65
  • Nowa Lewica (Centre-Left) - 26
  • Konfederacja (Far Right) - 18

Democratic opposition gets 248/460 seats, safe majority but not enough to counter presidential veto.

D’Hondt calculator via: https://danieljanus.pl/wybory2023/

Senat (upper house) as of 100% votes counted:

  • Senate pact*: 66
  • PiS: 34

* First past the post system is used in the upper house elections. Senate pact is an informal coalition of all democratic opposition parties where they agree on a single candidate per voting district.

Via: https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/15373201/embed?auto=1

  • misk@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    President can’t block it but will likely delay forming new government by nominating PiS first. This will obviously fail but will give PiS one more month to entrench in some public institutions.

    President can veto any law passed by the parliament. To counter that 276 votes are needed.