In the parliamentary elections in Poland, an alliance of three opposition parties won a majority of seats, according to the official final result.
The election commission in Warsaw announced this on Tuesday after counting all votes. The ruling nationalist party PiS lost its absolute majority.
The final count places PiS at 35.4%, followed by the centrist Civic Coalition at 30.7%, the centre-right Third Way at 14.4%, the Left at 8.6% and the far-right Confederation at 7.2%.
President Andrzej Duda now has to nominate a candidate for prime minister. The election yielded a record turnout of 74.4%.
The elections will put an end to the eight-year government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice (PiS) party.
The nationalist party has faced numerous clashes with the EU over its democratic backsliding – notably weakening the independence of the country's judicial system and government control of public media.
