Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party gains majority

The right-wing and anti-migrant Law and Justice party has won a majority of seats in Poland’s parliament and can govern alone, the state election authority announced yesterday.

The party, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, got 235 seats in the 460-seat lower house of Poland’s parliament and also won a majority in the Senate, the strongest position any single party has ever enjoyed in post-communist Poland.

For Law and Justice, which also has the backing of President Andrzej Duda, that means advocating a combination of Catholic conservative moral policies and planning more state intervention in the economy to help families and the poor.