Poland: PM Tusk’s pro-EU government wins confidence vote
Tusk’s call for a confidence vote came after right-wing nationalist Karol Nawrocki was elected president, narrowly beating the Tusk-backed candidate. The opposition had said the lost election would be Tusk’s downfall.PoliticsPoland
Poland: PM Tusk’s pro-EU government wins confidence vote
Tusk’s call for a confidence vote came after right-wing nationalist Karol Nawrocki was elected president, narrowly beating the Tusk-backed candidate. The opposition had said the lost election would be Tusk’s downfall.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk receives applause at the vote of confidence
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a parliamentary vote of confidence in his pro-European government on Wednesday, just days after a stinging presidential election defeat.
Tusk is seeking to reassert his authority after the defeat of his key ally Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a recent presidential election to the nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki.
“I needed this vote because we were seeing… speculation that this government will not make it, that Tusk may be taken down, and you cannot work under such conditions,” Tusk
Poland: PM Tusk’s pro-EU government wins confidence vote
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Tusk’s call for a confidence vote came after right-wing nationalist Karol Nawrocki was elected president, narrowly beating the Tusk-backed candidate. The opposition had said the lost election would be Tusk’s downfall.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk receives applause at the vote of confidence
Tusk had outlined his government’s program in a policy address ahead of the vote
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a parliamentary vote of confidence in his pro-European government on Wednesday, just days after a stinging presidential election defeat.
Tusk is seeking to reassert his authority after the defeat of his key ally Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a recent presidential election to the nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki.
“I needed this vote because we were seeing… speculation that this government will not make it, that Tusk may be taken down, and you cannot work under such conditions,” Tusk said.
How did the vote go for Tusk?
From the 460-seat parliament, 243 backed Tusk’s coalition, achieving the simple majority needed for the government to survive. Another 210 lawmakers voted against Tusk’s government.
Tusk’s supporters inside the Sejm, Poland’s lower house, rose to applaud the prime minister and chant his name.
The confidence vote, called by Tusk himself, came after right-wing nationalist Nawrocki, backed by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, narrowly beat his candidate Rafal Trzaskowski.
Nawrocki, who Nawrocki has promised to continue outgoing president Andrzej Duda’s policy of blocking Tusk’s reformist agenda, also has the backing of US President Donald Trump.
Announcing the vote, Tusk said his party was prepared for the challenge, understands the stakes, and does not “intend to take a single step back.”
“The vote of confidence should be a new opening,” Tusk said.
