Voters in Poland, a nation of 38 million people, are choosing 460 members of the lower house of parliament and 100 members of the Senate. The outcome of Sunday's parliamentary election will decide whether the conservative EU-skeptical ruling party will win an unprecedented third consecutive term in power.
FILE - Poland’s main opposition leader Donald Tusk speaks to supporters after taking part in an electoral debate in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Voters in Poland are heading into a divisive election Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, that will chart the way forward for the European Union’s fifth largest country by population size and its sixth biggest economy.
A period of electoral silence, which means no campaigning or release of opinion polls, starts at midnight on Saturday, and runs through the election. The State Electoral Commission may take two, even three, days to announce full official results of the elections. The government also has clashed with the EU over violations of democratic principles, leading to the freezing of billions of euros of pandemic recovery funds intended for Poland. Law and Justice wants less EU authority in the 27 member countries.
It is also promising raises of 30% to teachers, who are leaving the profession due to low wages. With Civic Coalition being a broad coalition, its member parties have different priorities. The Greens want to ban logging in critical forests while a pro-market party in the coalition is vowing tax cuts.
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