Out-going Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has accepted election defeat after being forced to call an early ballot. Kaczynski wished Donald Tusk, the expected victor in the Polish elections, every success. “We didn’t manage to fight this large front which was deployed against us,” Kaczynski said.

But as combative and defiant as ever, he added: “We musn’t forget that we won five million more votes, 50 percent more than in the last election, despite this unbelievable attack.” Kaczynski has vowed that his Law and Justice Party will return and provide strong opposition to the new government.

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