"The turnout, the highest in the last 14 years, is evidence that the Poles believed in the importance of their votes". With these words, mgr. Stanislaw Budzik, secretary general of the Polish Bishops Conference, commented the results of the parliamentary election that took place in Poland yesterday, which was won by the Civic Platform, the liberal rightist party that so far had been in the opposition. For the bishop, this is evidence of "increasing democratisation in the life of the country". Mgr. Budzik notices: "The result of the election will lead to concentrating more on the Polish political scene. Now there are two strong parties in Poland, because, even if the PiS (the party previously in power) has lost the latest election, it has retained wide consensus. Both parties, born of the Solidarnosc tradition, might become a permanent feature in the Polish political scenario". Mgr. Slawoj Leszk Glodz, metropolitan bishop of Warsaw-Prague (the part of the Polish capital on the right bank of the river Vistula), commented that "for the Civic Platform this will be no easy governance". Mgr. Glodz states he is not surprised at the verdict of the polls, because "the last few days of the election campaign" had suggested "that result". (continued)
