Poland's nationalists on course to stay in power for second term

WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice was on course to keep its ruling majority after a general election on Sunday, an exit poll showed, a victory likely to stoke concern about democratic standards in the largest former Soviet European Union state.

“We have victory,” PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 70, told party members at the party’s headquarters in central Warsaw, but he added the party had “deserved to win more”.Opposition groups and Poland’s EU partners have said that during its four years in power PiS has undermined the independence of the judiciary, forced public media to promote its agenda and taken other steps to quell dissent.

It has given few details about future policy plans, but Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro told reporters after voting ended on Sunday that PiS “had a real plan ... for courts to stop being the ball and chain of the Polish economy.” Critics accused it of fomenting homophobia during the election campaign, with PiS officials calling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights an invasive foreign influence that threatens Poland’s national identity.

“I see that they are building something, that they are doing something, that they have bought something back, it was all devastated, everything was sold, Poland had nothing, and I support PiS for that,” said Teresa Sass, an 85-year-old pensioner in the northern city of Gdansk. “When I talk with my mother, I practice the art of avoidance, I don’t get into any ideological discussions with her,” said Krzysztof Michalec, 56, as he waited in the sunshine to see Kaczynski cast his vote in Warsaw.The election will see the return of left-wing parties into parliament after they lost their seats four years ago because of fragmentation.

I heard it is the biggest votes the party has ever gotten

...said fascist Reuters.

No democracy should give any party super majority..it’s antithetical to Democracy..people who don’t know that deserve everything bad they get

They deserve peace. And control over immigration. Its the peoples money so peoples choice!!!

Why?

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The end of Democracy in Poland! Tragic news!

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