The right-wing PiS party wants to delay the formation of an opposition government. And the head of state Duda is helping: he is biding his time.
The official final result of the parliamentary elections in Poland on Tuesday makes the great defeat of the right-wing populist Kaczyński government even clearer than the partial results: the Law and Justice (PiS) party actually fell to less than 36 percent and therefore gained more than 8% in four years or lost 41 seats. This period saw the strengthening of the ban on abortion, massive attacks on press freedom and, most recently, the cereal dispute with Ukraine. But the ruling party wants to stay in power for now and keep the opposition out of power. And President Andrzej Duda could do his part.