The PIS received 43.6 per cent of Polish voters' support, which was an increase from 37.6 per cent four years ago. However, the tension persisted the day after Election Day, when the distribution of seats was decided by small margins.

In the parliament's lower house, the PIS retains its majority, with 235 of the chamber's 460 seats.

However, the party may not retain its majority in the upper chamber, the Senate, as it received only 48 of its 100 seats.

"Mandate to continue"

A majority in both chambers would have meant that the Nationalist and Conservative Party could have continued their far-reaching reforms, including the Polish judiciary, without much concern. The judicial reforms have put Poland on a collision course with the EU, which has repeatedly criticized the government and threatened with severe measures.

In the electoral movement, the PIS has distanced itself from the liberal values ​​of the Western world and directed the movement towards the movement that advocates equality for LGBTQ people in Poland, a message reflected by the Catholic Church to which the party holds close ties.

"We have been given the mandate to continue our good change, to continue our policy, to continue to change Poland," says party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the government's de facto leader.

New in the seismic

The mandate in the Sejm is distributed proportionally according to the parties' election results, but in the election to the Senate, a single candidate in each constituency wins. The largest opposition group, the center-oriented Citizens Coalition, received 43 Senate seats.

The Left, an alliance of left-wing parties that received no mandate in the last election, takes the seat with 12.6 percent of the vote.

The Outer Right Alliance The Confederacy - which brings together ultra-libertarians, right-wing extremists, monarchists and Catholic conservatives - also enters the congregation for the first time.

The turnout was almost 62 percent, the highest since the fall of communism.