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It's looking more and more like Poland will have a change in leadership after Sunday's

parliamentary elections.

The right-wing law-injustice party, called Peace in Polish, first ruled for two years

in the mid-2000s, and has now been in power since 2015.

But it appears the party's coalition won't have enough seats to govern going forward.

That paves the way for the more centrist civic platform party to take power.

It's led by opposition leader Donald Tusk.

Here to talk to me about the initial results and their wider implications is the FT's

Central Europe correspondent, Raphael Minder.

Hey, Raphael.

Hi there.

So going into Sunday, people were calling Poland's election the most important contest

for the EU this year. Why is that? I mean, what was at stake?

Well, I think basically the starting point, which is that Poland is the largest country

in Central and Eastern Europe. So basically sets the tone for that region's relationship

with the EU, which has become more important since the start of the full-scale invasion by Russia,

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