Poland: Parliamentary Election Roundup · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Raf Uzar writes that the Oct. 9 parliamentary election “will be a true test of Poland’s democratic calibre.” Polandian writes about a Lublin candidate “willing to court controversy in order to gain attention for some votes”: Katarzyna Lenart, 23, whose striptease video had over 410,000 views as of Oct. 8. Politics, Economy, Society hoped for a high turnout, for “[w]hoever wins, should be authorised by the nation to wield power,” and summarized the election's preliminary results, which point to the victory of Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (PO): “Poland is in for four years of predictable and pragmatic, yet sometimes mediocre and feckless rule.”