In Poland, the pro-European opposition claims victory in the legislative elections against the PiS populists currently in power

The pro-European centrist opposition won a parliamentary majority in Poland’s Sunday, October 15 legislative elections, according to exit polls, beating the populists of the currently ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and the far right combined .

According to these projections, the three centrist opposition parties, Donald Tusk’s Citizens’ Coalition (KO), the Third Way Christian Democrats and the Left, together won 248 seats in the 460-member parliament, compared to 212 seats for PiS and the Confederation (far right) combined.

“Poland won, democracy won, we drove them out of power (…) it’s the end of this bad period, it’s the end of PiS rule,” declared Donald Tusk immediately after the publication of surveys.