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Significance
Law and Justice (PiS) won the October 13 elections, showing that the ruling party has solid public support. However, the results were disappointing for PiS in particular, which seems narrowly to have lost control of the Senate.
Impacts
By missing a super-majority in parliament, PiS cannot implement leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s plan of constitutional change.
If the opposition can agree, it will have a majority in the Senate, so that PiS will be unable to pass bills within hours.
The exceptional Civic Coalition victory in Warsaw is becoming symbolic and may indicate who will lead the opposition in coming years.
Keywords:
Poland,
EUR,
international relations,
politics,
election,
government,
legislation,
opposition,
party,
foreign policy,
policy
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2019
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