One reason for the opposition’s victory is, of course, universal: after a time, people everywhere want change, and Civic Platform had been in power since 2007. And impatience with the status quo is arguably stronger in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where much of the social, political, and economic order is yet to be generally accepted.
当然，反对党获胜的原因之一非常普遍：随着时间的推移，人们渴望变化，而公民纲领党从2007年来一直权力在握。而且中东欧后共产主义国家对现状的不耐烦可能更加强烈，那里的大部分社会、政治和经济秩序尚未被普遍接受。事实上，公民纲领党的唐纳德·图斯克是后共产主义首位竞选连任的波兰首相。