It's now official. There will be a change of Government in Poland. A turn with a European accent. The Law and Justice party (PiS) lost its absolute majority in Sunday's general elections and will not be able to repeat its term. According to the final results announced by the electoral commission, the only government option will be a tripartite led by the former president of the European Council, Donal Tusk.. After all the constituencies were counted, the PiS reached 35.38% of the votes, while the liberal-conservative electoral alliance Civic Coalition (KO) of the opposition leader, Donald Tusk, obtained 30.7%.

The centrist Third Way obtained 14.4% and New Left 8.61%, leaving the tripartite opposition with 249 seats out of 460.. The PiS has made it clear that it will try to form a Government, but it has no partner and the only formation it could call, although the arithmetic does not work, is the extreme right.. The ultra-nationalist Confederation, which advocates an end to aid to Ukraine and ultra-liberal economic policies, has slipped to fourth place with 7.16%.. The Polish scene is reminiscent of the Spanish one. The winning party in the polls deposited on June 23, the PP, does not have a parliamentary majority.

European airs

Analysts predicted that last Sunday's elections would be the most important in Poland since 1989.. The match was also played in Brussels. The option flagged by the PiS meant the consolidation of the illiberal trend and train-collision with the European Commission that Jaroslaw Kacyniski’s have maintained since their 2015 rise to power. Tusk's alternative involved a completely antagonistic agenda: reconnecting with the community capital, which he knows well after leading the European Council for two terms.

The turn of the helm in Warsaw has been celebrated by the majority of the parliamentary group of the European Parliament, a very unusual scenario. “Very good news. Poles have voted massively to open a new era in the country. No one stands in the way of Poland in its European future,” said Manfred Weber, leader of the European People's Party, the European family of Tusk.. “Poles have voted for change, for stopping the autocratic drift of PiS and for returning Poland to the place it deserves: the heart of Europe,” the Social Democrats celebrated.

Poland's turnaround is good news for the EU. PiS has given Brussels enormous headaches. He refused to respect the refugee reception quotas agreed in 2015 and his controversial reform of the judiciary has undermined the rule of law and undermined the separation of powers. He crossed a red line proclaiming the supremacy of his law over community law. The Polish elections represent an important warning to sailors eight months before the European Parliament elections. The pro-European option has prevailed, something unthinkable years ago when PiS did not have any rival. Meanwhile, the one who will suffer these winds of change is the Hungarian Víktor Orbán, who loses his illiberal dance partner in the affront against Brussels.