Official results show Law and Justice wins Polish election

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WARSAW, Poland, Muharram 14, 1437, October 27, 2015, SPA -- Official results from Poland's parliamentary election on Monday confirmed that the right-wing Law and Justice party took more votes than any other group, according to AP. The country's election authority said that Law and Justice won 37.6 percent of the vote in Sunday's parliamentary election. Civic Platform, the pro-market party that governed for the last eight years, got 24.1 percent of the vote. Three other parties will also make it into parliament: a party led by the right-wing rock musician Pawel Kukiz, which got 8.8 percent; a pro-business party led by an economist, Ryszard Petru, with 7.6 percent and the agrarian Polish People's Party, with 5.1 percent. The election authority is expected to announce how many seats the parties get in parliament Tuesday. Results also confirmed no left-wing party made it in at all, the first time in 26 years of democracy that the former communists have no presence in the lawmaking body. The United Left, a coalition of five left-wing parties, got only 7.6 percent, below an 8 percent threshold that coalitions need to enter parliament. Two other small parties, one far-right and one far-left, also did not get enough votes to make it in. --SPA 01:07 LOCAL TIME 22:07 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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