Poland consolidated its rightwing shift on Sunday as the Conservative Law and Justice Party wins 242 of 460 seats in parliament, ending 8 years of centrist rule. Exit polls showed voters had handed an absolute majority to the Eurosceptic party that is against all Muslim immigration, wants Polish family-focused welfare spending and has threatened to ban abortion. For the first time in many years, it appears there will be no left wing members in Parliament.
Times of Israel Poland took a decisive turn to the right in its parliamentary election Sunday, tossing out the centrist party that had governed for eight years for a socially conservative and Euroskeptic party that wants to keep migrants out and spend more on Poland’s own poor. Even better, by winning over 39% of the vote, Law and Justice party has enough to govern alone without forming a coalition.
Kaczynski credited his late brother, former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, with the party’s strong showing. His brother was killed in the 2010 air crash in Russia that claimed the lives of the president and many of Poland’s top leaders.
If the exit poll results are confirmed, the Law and Justice will take 242 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament and 58-year-old lawmaker Beata Szydlo will become Poland’s next prime minister. Civic Platform will get 133 seats and only three other parties will make it into parliament — two of them for the first time.
Law and Justice is strongly pro-NATO but also more skeptical of the 28-nation European Union, of which Poland is a member. The party opposes adopting the euro currency and is strongly anti-Muslim migrant, positions that are expected to have a broader impact on the whole EU. The Catholic Church was seen as backing Law and Justice, as were many Poles who have not benefited from the country’s strong economic growth, expected at 3.5 percent this year.
Law and Justice has promised to reverse an unpopular rise in the retirement age and put more money into the pockets of struggling families with tax breaks, monthly cash bonuses for children under 18 and free medication for people over 75. It also wants to raise taxes on the mostly foreign-owned banks and big supermarkets in Poland and give tax breaks to smaller local businesses and those that adopt Polish technologies.
For the first time in Poland’s post-communist history, no left-wing forces appeared to have won enough votes Sunday to enter into parliament, according to the Ipsos exit poll.
It showed that only five parties gained enough votes to make it into parliament: Law and Justice; the centrist Civic Platform; a right-wing party led by rock star Pawel Kukiz; the new pro-business party Modern Poland led by a former World Bank economist and the Polish Peasants Party. Two left-wing forces had been in the running: the United Left, a coalition of several parties, and a new party, Together.
Civic Platform had led Poland through a period of strong economic growth and political stability, even during the global financial crisis of 2008-09 and the 2010 plane crash that killed so many top Polish officials. But the presidential vote in May signaled problems for Civic Platform when Law and Justice candidate Andrzej Duda edged out their incumbent.
Having the backing of the Catholic Church has led to some fears that Law and Justice will try to ban in vitro fertilization and create a total ban on abortion. For now, abortion in Poland is only allowed in rare cases, such as when the mother’s life is at risk or the fetus is damaged.
“If Law and Justice end up governing alone with an allied president, Poland will become another Hungary,” said Prof Radosław Markowski of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a reference to the extremist rightwing views of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán. (EXCELLENT!)
Thousands of Polish patriots come out to protest against the Muslim invasion of Europe:
Looks like the far right plan to put all Muslims into a registry for easier tracking might come to pass now.
i am a muslim pls don,t hate me
Too late, we already do.
Time will tell if poland will survive the storm. for now let this be an example of how a country runs without leftwing assholes bringing in fake refugees.
I am proud of my countrymen. Outlawing islam is the RIGHT thing to do!
AMEN!
Another attactive think about Poland …. they have one of the worlds richest silver mines …. who would have tunk it …. and plenty of bread and sausage ?
good for Poland and Switzerland and Austria now pay attention rest of Europe and follow suit
Great news for Poland. Specially good after the Canadian elections. Hope that Other countries will also follow them and protect them from evil.
Russian plane crash, maybe a MIRV killed the brother of Kaczynski and other parliamentarians. That’s really good. But I hope these conservative Catholics are not liberation theology Catholics. Let’s look.
Thanks for the “good news” story, Bonni. I needed a break from ripping my hair out, wondering when the hell shit was gonna finally start to get back on the right track.
Being Polish, by decent, this makes me very proud!
Its encouraging to see Europeans voting loud and proud against the invasion of Europe.
Lets hope this attitude towards the invading savages spreads across the rest of Europe before its too late.
I fear for Germanistan because Merkels CDU party does not need to call another Federal Election until Aug 2017 at the earliest. Imagine how much damage she can continue to do up until then…
I was told by my German neighbor that average German’s are LIVID about what is going on there. Send the muzzies back to where they came from!!
To Whom It May Concern :
I pray, and that’s no joke, that your efforts to curb the pernicious, sneaking, advance of the ever victimized, always outraged, never satisfied, lying, muslims can be stopped by political means.
But what I fear is that with numbers in your various Nations as they are now, and you stop being swayed by their piteous, whining, lies to gain special treatment, they will return to the terroristic methods they have used since their baby raping “Poppet” came into fashion in the Arab world.
Possibly, there will be more attacks on innocent citizens by gangs of four or five of the uncivilized bastards, and more rapes, and more daylight robberies and demonstrations to disrupt your lives until you start to give in to their demands a little at a time.
God bless you, Poland, and all the small nations who are in danger of being overpowered by these leagues of fit young islamics, claiming to be refugees.
Poland I salute you,a great result for your country and it will give confidence to other Europeans that all is not lost and everyone has a part to play in defeating this Islamic scum.Free thinking people only have to look at Sweden to see a nation meekly submitting to a violent Muslim Army intent on rape,murder,welfare dependance and then when civil society is weakened enough implementation of Sharia then you have END GAME,an Islamic Hellhole like the one they crawled out of..I feel the Polish elections had one huge overriding issue…Islamic Invasion..so you could say this was actually a REFERENDUM on whether to commit national suicide like the stupid Swedes and Germans or keep your country strong and pass on your nation better than you found it to future generations.To see the left blown away made me smile,maybe they should move to Syria and be with their mates ISIS!!!!There was nothing on the Australian media,but they are mostly a bunch of Lefty running dogs.Hey everyone they say ISLAM NEVER GIVES BACK WHAT IT TAKES…..so I say give nothing to Islam only cold-steel.
Congratulations to the “Law And Justice” Party,
& I wish that the US would have the courage to
have a similar party. Please protect your Polish
culture from the scourge of the muslim invaders,
follow the lead of PM Orban, who is protecting Hungary
from these sub-humans. Perhaps, even our liberal
Pope will will join those, who are fighting against
the evil of Islam
And even better news, the invaders are going to die from cold weather…(It is Infidel ORGASM time)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11954037/Refugees-will-freeze-to-death-warn-EU-head.html
No, they won’t, they’ll be moved into luxury hotels that the govt takes over to house them
Praise God! Congratulations to our Polish brothers and sisters.
Poland, The entire civilised world rejoices with you!
For Poland and the safety and survival of the entire Free World, it’s urgent that Muslim immigration is not just stopped, but reversed quickly.
WHEREVER THERE ARE MUSLIMS, NON-MUSLIMS WILL NEVER BE SAFE.
Im thinking that they prayed! And God replied ” Kick out the murderers, rapists, and those who worship BAAL. Stop those who kill my children, and those unborn”. Im praising God for this! What a victory! Now, our nation needs prayer to get rid of those who bring in vermin, rapists, killers, muslim scum and Illegals from south.
Good start. Let’s hope more come to their senses before it’s too late! Thanks for the good news.
as long as there are muslims and their evil warbook there will not be peace they must be eradicated then those of us who love peace and democracy can live our lives in peace, No muscums-know peace deport or kill the killers
It is not too late to save the culture of Poland if the new government will stop all muslum immigration and deport all illegal muslums, deport all criminal muslums, ban mosques and so on. If they do not have the courage to do so then ‘good bye poland.’