The centrist pro-European party of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the Citizens’ Coalition, is the winner of the European elections, having collected 38.2% of the vote and 21 seats in the European Parliament, according to exit poll results.

Second place is occupied by the nationalist, populist party Law and Justice, which was in power for eight years until last October’s elections, with 33.9% of the vote and 19 seats in the European Parliament.

The far-right, Eurosceptic Konfederacja (Confederation) gathers 11.9% of the vote and secures 6 seats in the European Parliament, according to the exit poll of the IPSOS institute.

Donald Tusk’s two allies in the Polish government, the Third Way and the Left secured respectively 8.2% and 6.6% of the vote and 4 and 3 seats.

The participation in the voting amounted to 39%.

After last October’s elections, Warsaw began normalizing its previously strained relations with Brussels. The pre-election campaign of the European elections was dominated by the issue of military, economic and energy security, the importance of which is recognized by 95% of Poles, according to opinion polls, and by the entire political class of Poland, a NATO and European Union country , a neighbor of Russia, a staunch ally of Ukraine.