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A MAJORITY of voters supported opposition parties in Sunday’s general election.
An exit poll showed three centrist opposition parties had together secured about 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, giving them a clear majority.
The likely new coalition government is pro-European Union and allied to Ukraine.
The poll showed the incumbent Law & Justice party with 36.6 per cent of the votes; Civic Coalition, led by former European Council president Donald Tusk, with 31 per cent; the Third Way coalition with 13.5 per cent; the Left party with 8.6 per cent; and the far-right Confederation with 6.4 per cent.
But Poland faces weeks of uncertainty as Law & Justice declared its intention to try to stay in power.
“No matter how you look at it, we won,” Law & Justice campaign manager Joachim Brudzinski said today in a radio interview.
On Sunday night Mr Tusk declared that it was the end of Law & Justice rule and that a new era had begun for Poland.
The Polish electoral commission said it expected to report the final result early on Tuesday.
