Thousands of Poles protest election results

AP reported that on December 13, thousands of supporters of the Law and Justice Party, a conservative opposition party in Poland, protested the results of last month's local elections, which party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said were fraudulent.

Thousands of Poles protested against the election results. Source: AP

Protesters supporting Mr Kaczynski marched in the capital Warsaw under the slogan "support democracy."

The election was plagued by problems such as computer errors that delayed the announcement of results and many ballots were declared invalid due to voters apparently being confused and marking the wrong ballots.

According to election results, Mr. Kaczynski's party won the most votes but held fewer seats in local legislative assemblies than the ruling Civic Platform party due to the way seats were divided.

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