For the first time in recent history, the ruling party remained in power.

In Poland, parliamentary elections were held, during which right-wing liberal party “Civic Platform”, in power since 2007 (it is headed by the Prime Minister Donald Tusk) gained nearly 40 percent of votes.

Its closest rival, the nationalist-conservative “Law and Justice” under the direction of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother who died in 2010 in Smolensk suburb President Lech Kaczynski, got less than 30 percent of votes.

Three other parties entered the Seim (Polish Parliament): the populists of the dissenting from the “Civic Platform” anti-clerical “Palikot Movement”, the Polish People’s Party representing the interests of farmers, and the post-communists of Democratic Left Alliance.

Under Polish law, the party which has won the parliamentary elections, forms the government.

Under the decision of its members, the president appoints the prime minister, who is later approved by the Seim.

However, for this purpose, the winning party must either have a majority in parliament, or create a coalition.

Tusk has already agreed on this with his old partner in the current cabinet of ministers, the leader of the farmers Waldemar Pawlak, who is currently a deputy prime minister.

Thus, Donald Tusk will be the Prime Minister for the second and, according to him, the last time.

None of his predecessors managed to achieve such success.

Despite many disadvantages (e.g., problems with corruption), in general, the voters were satisfied with the results of first four-year governing of “Civic Platform”.

It has successfully used the subsidies granted by the EU, and avoided the worst effects of the economic crisis of 2008, although the budget deficit and national debt of the country continue to increase.

Nonetheless, people have seen that under the present circumstances, the authorities act in the right direction.

Moreover, Warsaw has also achieved considerable success in foreign policy.

It strengthened the alliance with Brussels and consolidated its position as the leader in Eastern Europe.

An important factor which made the Poles vote for Tusk, was also the fear that radical Kaczynski could come to power, whose idea of today’s world is not acceptable by many citizens of the country.

As expected, mostly conservative and elderly residents of an underdeveloped agrarian east and south-east of the country voted for a stubborn and uncompromising Kaczynski (he has already been the prime minister under the government of his brother-president in 2006-2007).

Young people - those were born already in post-Soviet Poland - voted for “Palikot Movement”, which unexpectedly took third place in the election with 10 percent of votes.

According to most experts, this is a serious signal to the current Polish government, which is still exploiting the traditional Polish values ​​about which the younger generation does not want to hear any more.

A former member of the “Civic Platform” Janusz Palikot, who made ​​his multi-million wealth on sales of vodka, says without fear and embarrassment about things unacceptable to the Poles.

He is against the clericalism of society, pleads for the legalization of soft drugs, same-sex marriage and abortion.

In the economy, he proposes a flat rate for three major taxes, to raise the retirement age, to liberalize labor laws and to reduce defense spendings.

Such things are unheard freethinking to Polish society.

10 years ago, Palikot with such proposals would be removed from politics, but today the number of his supporters, especially among young people, is growing.

Meanwhile, the elections have revealed another trend - a significant reduction in support of the left by population, who took the fifth place in the elections.

A new generation of voters feels no nostalgia for Communist times praised by the Socialists.

Their leader, a young and energetic, Grzegorz Napieralski, who finished third in the last year’s presidential elections and who was considered a rising political star, after the failure has resigned from his post of a party leader.

In general, the results of the elections showed that the status quo will remain in both foreign and domestic policy of Poland.

Warsaw will continue its policy of small affairs in the country and in foreign relations it will try to establish good neighborly relations with Russia.

So far, no abrupt changes in foreign policy are expected.

However, much will depend on how the relations between Moscow and Minsk with the EU will develop.

Because the current top priority for the Polish authorities is an active membership in the EU.