Poland's parliament on knife-edge as opposition takes upper house


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  • Monday, 14 Oct 2019

Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski speaks after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw, Poland, October 13, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party appears to have narrowly won a second term in power, final results from Sunday's parliamentary election showed, but its drive to push through its agenda may be hampered by its loss of the upper house.

On a day of high drama, what had looked like a clear-cut victory for PiS morphed into a knife-edge contest for the more powerful lower house and an opposition win in the upper house, dealing a serious blow to the socially conservative party which had aimed for a big enough majority to change the constitution.

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