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Election 2011 – Official: Civic Platform win nearly 40 percent of vote

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Peter Gentle 10.10.2011 14:20
With 99.00 percent of the votes counted in Sunday's parliamentary elections, Poland's National Election Commission has announced that the centre-right Civic Platform received 39.19 percent of the vote nationwide with the conservative Law and Justice party on 29.88 percent.

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National Election Commission; photo - PAP/Andrzej Hrechorowicz

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11.05 CET: Sunday saw a major success for the new liberal Palikot Movement, based around the ex-Civic Platform MP Janusz Palikot, who received 10.01 percent, followed by the Polish Peasant's party (PSL), the junior coalition partner in the previous Civic Platform-led coalition over the last four years on 8.36 percent and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) on 8.25 percent.

In Poland's lower house of parliament, the Sejm, Civic Platform will have 206 MPs, Law and Justice 157, Palikot Movement 40, PSL 30 and SLD 26.

It now is he job of Civic Platform's Donald Tusk to try and form the next coalition government, which needs the participation of the other parties in the lower house.

In the upper house of parliament, the Senate, Civic Platform will have 62 senators, Law and Justice 31 and PSL 2. Final results will be released Tuesday.

Turnout was 48.87 percent.

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11.40 CET: An Arab Spring delegation observed the Polish elections yesterday. Rania Mbarki, representing a local election commission in Tunis has told Polish Radio that the Tunisian authorities have a more strict approach to ballot secrecy than Poland.

“It’s obligatory to stand in the voting booth before putting pen to paper. Here the ballot papers are marked on tables with families around. There is a discussion. In our country it’s confidential, we can’t say what we have chosen, you can’t show what you have chosen, so this is different for us,” he said. Read more here.

12.02 CET: Former defence minister Bogdan Klich, who resigned this summer after the publication of Poland's report into the Smolensk air disaster, is among new senators elected to the upper house.

12.58 CET: Here's a story which could make the more conservative residents of Krakow quake in their boots - Anna Grodzka looks set to be elected as an MP in Krakow. Thing is she used to be called Ryszard Grodzki and is Poland's first transsexual MP.

13.20 CET: Polish Radio has learned that Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk is meeting with President Bronislaw Komorowski this lunchtime in what will be preliminary discussions on his plans for form the next coalition government. Presidential adviser, Professor Tomas Nałęcz declared in an interview with Polish Radio that by the end of the week Bronislaw Komorowski will consult with all parties with seats in parliament. Yesterday, the president said that after the election campaign comes the time to work together. He added that a period of coalition talks will now begin and expressed the hope that this will quickly lead to the creation of a majority coalition in parliament. (IAR)

13.45 CET: After the left wing SLD received just 8 percent in the elections, leader Gregorz Napieralski looks set to fall on his sword.

1414 CET: 'Jasmine' has written to us reminding me that "transsexual people can be conservative too", before writing: "Georgina Beyer (born November 1957[1] as George Bertrand) was the world's first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from 27 November 1999 until 14 February 2007 was an MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand."

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14.35 CET: With 99 percent of all votes counted, the National Election Committee says that the 'also rans' in the election yesterday got the following percentage of the vote: Poland Comes First (PJN) 2.19, New Right 1.06, Polish Labour Party August '80 0.55.

14.50 CET: As deal-making begins in smoke-free rooms, PSL have said they want the agriculture, economy and social policy ministries if they are to continue cooperation with Civic Platform.

15.20 CET: “Predictability and stability, words that used to be applicable to Germany are now synonymous with Poland,” says former prime minister, economist Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, commenting on the second consecutive election victory of Donald Tusk's Civic Platform. (IAR)

15.30 CET: "The outcome of the elections is good news for investors as pro-market policies are likely to be continued and there should be a solid parliamentarian majority for fiscal reforms," Danske Bank said in a note. The Polish zloty was 1.1 percent higher against the euro at midday on Monday, bonds also firmed and the Warsaw bourse's main index rose 1.6 percent, outperforming regional markets. (Reuters)

Online reporting Peter Gentle

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