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Following the parliamentary elections in Poland, the ruling Law and Justice Party retains the same number of seats in the Diet, the lower house of parliament. And he loses the Senate to a seat near.
With our correspondent in Warsaw, Thomas Giraudeau
It is a mixed victory that the populist ultraconservatives of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) won at the end of the legislative elections in Poland . While they hoped to increase their hold on the Diet, the lower house of Parliament, they keep the same number of deputies there. And lose the Senate to a seat near.
This change of majority was played out at 320 votes that gave the victory to an opposition candidate against that of the PiS in the north-west of the country. The opposition parties had decided, for the Senate, to present in each constituency only one candidate against the one designated by the power. Bet successful, and it changes the game slightly.
Admittedly, the Senate can only delay the adoption of the laws, and not paralyze all the work of the Diet, the one that votes them definitively. But it can still slow down the steamroller launched by the PiS for four years. Some bills were indeed passed in the middle of the night, in a few hours, by both houses of Parliament, without the opposition being able to do anything. It's impossible now.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the PiS, also insisted on this small defeat Monday night, regretting not to have also obtained an absolute majority in the Senate.