PO sweep to victory in EP elections

12th June 2009

Despite low turnout at the election booths last Sunday, enough people turned up to give PM Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform Party (PO) a resounding victory in the European Parliamentary elections.

With 44.43 per cent of the vote going to PO, the electorate gave a clear signal to both government and opposition about who they wanted representing them in the EP.

“The government did not receive a yellow card but a vote of trust,” Tusk said after exit poll results were announced Sunday evening, stressing that support for PO had grown since the parliamentary elections in 2007 in spite of the financial crisis.

Responding to criticism that 73 per cent of those eligible to vote didn’t bothe ...