With 243 MPs voting in favour and 210 against, Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland has survived a vote of confidence in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament. Abstentions were nonexistent. After Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, a close ally, lost to conservative Karol Nawrocki in the June 1 presidential runoff, Tusk asked for a vote of confidence.
Nawrocki, who has the support of US President Donald Trump, is expected to succeed outgoing President Andrzej Duda, a conservative who was backed by the Law and Justice or PiS parties and who consistently obstructed Tusk’s reform initiatives.
Regardless of these fleeting feelings, anybody who is prepared to move forward with me, the administration, and most importantly, our citizens, and create a better Poland, should vote today for a vote of confidence in our government,” Tusk stated in the house before the vote.
Tusk has long hoped that a Trzaskowski win would end the institutional impasse brought up by Duda’s vetoes.
We can’t ignore reality,” he stated. “We are replacing a president who was hesitant to embrace the reforms we suggested for Poland and our citizens with a new president who is at least as hesitant to adopt those reforms and proposals.
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