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POLAND’S conservative Law and Justice Party (PIS) was declared the winner of parliamentary elections yesterday with Beata Szydlo expected to become prime minister.
PIS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2007, said the party planned to follow a moderate course, indicating that it was abandoning his divisive style of the past.
“We will exert law but there will be no taking of revenge,” he said after polls closed on Sunday night. “There will be no kicking of those who have fallen of their own fault and very rightly so.”
During the last PIS government, when Mr Kaczynski’s late identical twin brother Lech Kaczynski served as president, communists and other political opponents were persecuted.
The PIS is pro-Catholic, anti-abortion and against membership of the euro.
The Polish Communist Party (PKK) had urged voters to boycott the elections, saying: “The current capitalist system creates the illusion of democracy and the political struggle takes place between parties representing the interests of the privileged classes.”
