Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk to seek confidence vote after ally's election loss

Published connected 02/06/2025 - 21:05 GMT+2•Updated 21:11

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said he would inquire parliament to clasp a ballot of assurance successful his conjugation authorities aft his ally, nan wide Warsaw politician Rafał Trzaskowski, mislaid Sunday's statesmanlike runoff.

Conservative Karol Nawrocki won nan election, finishing pinch 50.89% of nan vote.

"Regardless of really we measure nan winning candidate, we should admit his triumph and congratulate his voters," Tusk said successful a televised reside connected Monday.

"I want to state to you that I will not extremity for a infinitesimal arsenic premier curate of our government. The statesmanlike elections person not changed thing present and will not alteration anything. We will cooperate pinch nan caller president wherever basal and possible."

The consequence leaves Tusk politically weakened and location are questions astir whether his multi-party conjugation tin past to nan extremity of its word successful precocious 2027.

If he survives nan assurance vote, it would show he still has a instruction to govern.

It is not clear erstwhile nan assurance ballot mightiness return place.

Nawrocki will win blimpish Andrzej Duda, whose 2nd and last word ends connected 6 August.

The adjacent ballot had nan state connected separator since a first information 2 weeks earlier revealed heavy divisions on nan eastbound flank of NATO and nan European Union.

Although astir day-to-day powerfulness lies successful Poland lies pinch nan premier minister, nan president is capable to power overseas argumentation and, crucially, veto legislation.

Tusk, who came to powerfulness successful precocious 2023 pinch a conjugation authorities pinch a wide ideological divide, has been incapable to muster capable support to fulfil definite electoral promises specified arsenic easing abortion law.

He is expected to look further obstacles pinch Nawrocki arsenic president.

The 42-year-old amateur boxer and governmental novice is supported by nan blimpish Law and Justice statement (PiS) which governed Poland from 2015 to 2023.

Party leader Jarosław Kaczyński appealed connected Monday to each governmental forces to support nan statement of a technocratic government.

"Today we request a solution successful nan shape of a method government, which, for illustration nan president, will beryllium non-partisan. The caput of this authorities must beryllium selected successful talks pinch those who would beryllium fresh to support specified a project. It would not person to beryllium personification who has ties to us," he said.

"Individual ministries would beryllium managed by specialists successful circumstantial areas of societal life."