Polish PM Tusk seeks confidence vote over tapes scandal


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Jun 2014

Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks during a news conference in Budapest June 24, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

WARSAW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday he would seek a confidence vote from parliament after secret recordings of senior officials plunged Poland into its worst political crisis for years.

"I'm ending my statement with a motion to the parliament speaker to conduct the confidence vote as soon as possible," Tusk told parliament, over a week after news magazine Wprost started publishing the tapes.

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