Polish parliamentary election, 2011

  • MN: 1
  • SLD: 27
  • RP: 40
  • PO: 207
  • PSL: 28
  • PiS: 157
  • PO: 63
  • PSL: 2
  • Indep. 4
  • PiS: 31

The parliamentary elections in Poland in 2011 was held on 9 October. The Civic Platform (PO ) won the most seats, so that Donald Tusk is the first re-elected Polish prime minister since the end of the People's Republic. The Polish Peasant Party ( PSL ), which already previously put the junior partner of the ruling coalition, continued the coalition.

Selection and appointment

In the election, the voters decided on the composition of the seats in the two chambers ( Sejm and Senate) of the Polish Parliament. Decided also was the choice of the formation of a new cabinet after the output.

The appointment was announced on August 4, 2011 Polish President Bronisław Komorowski. He confirmed officially a date, which he had suggested publicly in July of the same year.

Electoral system

The Sejm is elected by proportional representation and the Senate by relative majority vote. There was a minimum threshold of 5 % and party alliances to 8%. The legislature was four years for both chambers of parliament.

Participating parties and leading candidates

The following seven parties as candidates in all 41 constituencies for the Sejm:

Other participating parties, which are no longer running in all districts:

  • Congress of the New Right ( KNP ); 21 districts
  • Law of the Republic (PR ); 20 districts
  • Our native Poland (NDP ); 9 districts
  • Election Committee German minority (MN ); 1 Circle

With the exception of the German minority, which is exempt as an ethnic minority party of the five-percent electoral threshold, none of the parties referred to as Other reached a place in the Sejm in the polls. Some other minor parties had decided not to participate in the election, but to compete for places candidates on electoral lists of larger parties.

Electioneering

Donald Tusk stressed on campaign events, the economic successes of Poland in his reign forth. He also called for further rapprochement with Russia. The Law and Justice Party, however, continued their suspicious rate against Russia and Germany. In his published just before the election book The Poland of our dreams Jarosław Kaczyński Merkel accused, they belong " this generation of German politicians who want to restore the imperial power of Germany" and a "strategic axis with Moscow " fancy, in Poland " only could be an obstacle. " "Our country must therefore be subjected to one or the other way. "

Surveys

Opinion polls to the Polish parliamentary elections were first created 16 May 2010 and performed until shortly before election day on October 9. The two largest parties, Civic Platform and Law and Justice, recorded significant declines in voter approval, as a surprise, however, the increasing popularity of the Palikot Movement was evaluated.

Election result

The liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO ) of Prime Minister Donald Tusk won well ahead of the national conservative Law and Justice party (PiS ) of former government Jarosław Kaczyński. The counting of 99 percent of the vote was 39.2 percent for the PO which thereby gaining 207 of the 460 deputies mandates and strongest party in the new Sejm. The PiS could combine 29.9 percent of the vote in what you secured 157 seats in parliament. Almost ten per cent win the new left-liberal party Palikot Movement (RP ) with 40 deputies. The PSL received 28 parliamentary seats, the Democratic Left Alliance 27 seats. The turnout was nearly 49 percent.

The election result is seen as a result of a young middle class expects the continuity of the policy. At the same time, the result can be seen as confirmation of the integration-friendly European policy stance of the Civic Platform. The fact that the PO managed to keep Poland in the global economic and financial crisis stable, was another reason for their good performance. The PiS, which announced the break with previous policy, so that mobilized PO voters who wanted to prevent such. This peaceful governance without hectic reforms was a support for the election results for the PO, but some are therefore necessary for the integration in the euro zone reforms still on. It limits the Polish Constitution, the government debt to 60 % of the annual gross domestic product bringing a reduction of expenditure must be made. Particularly noteworthy is the success of Ruch Palikota is considered. Especially young students supported the party that calls for greater secularization of the state. With the successful installation of Robert and Anna Grodzka Biedroń first draw a an openly homosexual and transsexuals in the Sejm.

( 1) For the German minority ( MN) did not apply the 5% electoral threshold. ( 2) PJN there were in the previous elections to the Sejm not yet, however, the party had 15 seats in the Sejm and the Senate was disbanded as the vorangegagangene Parliament.

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