Europe News on Oct. 12, 2019

Saturday, October 12, 2019

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Lower Saxony (Germany)

2 days ago

PSA: Our policy on the Turkish offensive in Syria

Since we are receiving an increasing amount of posts on the issue, here is a quick PSA from the mod team.

We do not consider developments of the Turkish offensive on-topic for this subreddit. If you want to discuss what is happening there, head over to r/syriancivilwar. Please behave over there, due to the recent developments, the syriancivilwar mod team is experiencing a massive increase in users and workload, so they are running a zero-tolerance-policy at the moment.

The only exception from this are major developments:

Posts about the Turkish decision to go into Syria was on-topic. Likewise, a decision to pull out again would be on-topic.
Official reactions of the EU and european governments are considered on-topic.
Threats of the Turkish government to the EU in regard to this topic are on-topic.

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18 hours ago

Polish National Election Megathread

Tomorrow (Sunday, October 13th) Poles will head to the polls, casting their votes in national elections. Around ~30M people are eligible to vote (citizens above 18 years of age), but turnout will probably be traditionally low, although is expected to end slightly above the average - somewhere between 55 and 60%.

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Electoral system

Polish parliament consists of two houses, each elected according to different systems. Previous elections happened four years ago.

460 seats of Sejm (lower house, which is actually one which matters) are chosen in proportional representation, using d'Hondt method, with 5% national threshold (there's also 8% threshold for coalitions, but only KO starts as that, and has above 20% in polls). There are 41 constituencies, each sending from 7 to 20 MPs.
100 seats of Senat (upper house, which has limited power - it can be compared to "speed limiter" in a car) are elected in 100 single-winner FPTP districts.

Polls will open at 7:00, and close at 21:00. Campaign silence is ordained throughout whole Saturday and Sunday until the 21:00, so exit polls will be revealed only after that hour. We can expect only turnout data during the day. Official results will be available probably late Monday. Official website of PKW (electoral authority) is available HERE.

Contenders

There are only five (record low) electoral committees registered in all constituencies. Everything else doesn't matter and won't get any seat, except German Minority, which is exempt of threshold, and will probably gain 1 seat in the only constituency they registered a list.