Polish PM Tusk to call for vote of confidence in government


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  • Tuesday, 03 Jun 2025

FILE PHOTO: Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk talks to the press after their meeting on May 16, 2025 in Tirana, Albania. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk will call for a parliamentary vote of confidence in his coalition government, after his candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski, lost the presidential election on Sunday.

"The first test will be a vote of confidence, which I will ask in the Parliament soon," Tusk said on Monday in a televised speech."I want everyone to see, including our opponents, at home and abroad, that we are ready for this situation, that we understand the gravity of the moment, but that we do not intend to take a single step back."

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, delivering a blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's pro-European orientation.

(Reporting by Justyna Pawlak, Marek Strzelecki and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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