Polish election: Right-wing ruling party to lose majority – exit poll

An exit poll suggests that the right-wing populist party Law and Justice party is set to win most seats in Poland’s general election but is still unlikely to secure a third term in office. 

Known as PiS, the party is set to win 36.6% of the vote, with the centrist opposition on 31% says the Ipsos poll. 

If the poll is correct, Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition has a better chance of forming a coalition.

He plans to end the eight-year rule of PiS under leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. The PiS leader admitted he did not know if the party’s “success will be able to be turned into another term in power.” 

“Poland won, democracy has won,” Tusk, 66, told a large crowd in Warsaw. “This is the end of the bad times, this is the end of the PiS government.”

There were roars as the Ipsos poll flashed up on the screen and Tusk appeared to loud cheers and chants of his name.