Polish PM Tusk wins confidence vote despite tapes scandal


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  • Thursday, 26 Jun 2014

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk gestures as he speaks in Parliament in Warsaw June 25, 2014. REUTERS/Jerzy Dudek

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday won a vote of confidence in parliament, facing down for now at least opponents who say he should quit over leaked conversations between senior officials that embarrassed the government.

In a late night vote that was called earlier in the day on Tusk's own initiative, 237 members of parliament voted to express confidence in the government, over the 231 votes that Tusk needed to stay in power.

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