Ka cika wannan magana: Bayan mutuwar Sarkin Poland Augustus na Uku a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1763, an soma neman a zaɓi sabon sarkin. Catherine ta ba da goyon bayanta ga Poniatowski. Rashawa sun kashe kimanin rubles miliyan 2.5 don taimakawa zabensa. Magoya bayan Poniatowski da abokan hamayyarsa sun shiga cikin wasu ayyukan soja har ma da ƙananan rikice-rikice. A ƙarshe, an tura sojojin Rasha kilomita kaɗan daga za ~ en za ~ en, wanda ya haɗu a Wola kusa da Warsaw. A cikin taron, babu wasu manyan masu fafatawa, kuma a lokacin
a cikin kiran sejm a ranar 7 ga Satumba, 1764, an zabi Poniatowski mai shekaru 32 a matsayin sarki, tare da kuri'u 5,584. Ya yi rantsuwa da pacta conventa a ranar 13 ga Nuwamba, kuma an yi nadin sarauta a Warsaw a ranar 25 ga Nuwamba. "Uncles" na sabon sarki a cikin "Family" da sun fi son wani dan uwansa a kan karagar mulki, Yarima Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, wanda wani abokin zamaninsa ya bayyana a matsayin "débauché, si non dévoyé" (Faransanci: "mai lalata idan ba lalata ba"), amma Czartoryski ya ƙi neman ofis.