Poland - mergers!

Poland has seen quite a bit of change over the summer and past few years. Parties have tended to merge with one another. Weather this remains the case after the coming elections remains to be seen. Regardless; the main mergers are as follows.


PO and .N have merged into KO, the Civic Coalition. PO was the main opposition party, and took 24% of the vote last time; Donald Tusk is from this party. It is seen as Liberal. The .N party had, at times, polled upwards of 25% during 2016. They will be joined by 3 other parties (one of which is the Greens) in the coming elections. Combined, the parties took 31.7% in the last election.

Our second party is the upgraded PSL. The PSL is an agrarian party that has existed off and on since the days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, albeit with significant breaks. Even the modern party, founded in 1990, is now right-wing where upon founding the party was left-wing. They are joined by Kukiz, and a few other parties. In the last election they took 13.9% of the vote.

Next is the Left. It is a merger of three left wing parties, none of whom hold seats in Parliament at this time. They took a combined 11.2% of the vote in the last election.

Last is Confederation (Kon), which is the personal vehicle of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who lead his previous party, KORWiN, into the alliance. He is famous for saying women should earn less than men because they are weaker. They took a combined 4.8% in the last election.

Facing them is the un-merged PiS party, Law and Justice, which remains polling far ahead.

Current polls, (vs previous merged results) are as follows:

41% - PiS - (38%)
27% - KO - (32%)
12% - Left - (11%)
6% - PSL - (14%)
5% - Kon - (5%)