With 90% of the vote counted, it's clear the democratic opposition in Poland just defeated the national-conservative autocratic ruling party.

I know that there are a lot of terrible things happening right now, but this, finally, is actual good news:

🎁 article (accessible for 14days):
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/poland-parliamentary-election-autocracy-tusk/675656/?gift=vgGG9ZUNBmD_We5Zd_3wgFvDxUYDbfq_BpYdQk2s_pY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Poland Shows That Autocracy Is Not Inevitable

The ruling party tried to use the Polish state to hold on to power, but voters rejected the effort.

The Atlantic
@yarkot hopefully it's a good sign for the German election 🤞