WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Two center-right parties have won a majority in Poland's weekend national election, ousting the scandal-ridden leftist Democratic Left Alliance.
With 90 percent of votes counted Monday, the Law and Justice Party took 152 seats in the lower house of parliament, followed by the Civic Platform, which won 133 seats.
The ruling former communists took 56 seats, the BBC reported.
Numerous other parties across the political spectrum divided the remainder of the 460-seat legislature.
Voter turnout Sunday was about 40 percent of the 30 million Poles eligible to cast ballots -- lowest turnout in a parliamentary election since the fall of Communism in 1989.
Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is likely to become Poland's next prime minister, while his identical twin brother, Lech Kaczynski, is running for president in a vote two weeks away.
