Poland election: the opposition has claimed victory – what happens next? | The panel

Our panel considers what the populist ruling party's apparent defeat could mean for democracy and Poland's place in Europe

Pro-democratic Poles can be cautiously happy. The ruling rightwing party Law and Justice (PiS) may have come first in an unfair election that stacked the odds in its favour, but it is unlikely to be able to form a government, either alone or in coalition with the far-right Konfederacja party.

Jakub Jaraczewski is a research coordinator at Democracy Reporting International, Berlin