POLAND’S NEW LEADER
Beata Szydlo, candidate for prime minister of the conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) celebrates with supporters at the party’s headquarters in Warsaw after exit poll results were announced on October 25. Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party won an absolute majority in the general election, public broadcaster TVP projected, a victory that would end eight years of centrist rule. An exit poll showed the PiS picked up 242 out of 460 seats in the lower house of parliament, ousting the governing Civic Platform (PO) liberals who had 133 seats. AFP PHOTO
Beata Szydlo, candidate for prime minister of the conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) celebrates with supporters at the party’s headquarters in Warsaw after exit poll results were announced on October 25. Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party won an absolute majority in the general election, public broadcaster TVP projected, a victory that would end eight years of centrist rule. An exit poll showed the PiS picked up 242 out of 460 seats in the lower house of parliament, ousting the governing Civic Platform (PO) liberals who had 133 seats. AFP PHOTO
WARSAW: Poland’s conservative Law and Justice party won a landslide in Sunday’s general elecation on anti-refugee rhetoric and welfare promises, ending eight years of centrist rule in a victory that risks inflaming tensions with the EU and Russia.