Presidential election: After Poland election: Tusk will ask the question of trust on June 11th

Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk will ask the question of trust in Parliament on June 11th. “The vote of trust for the government is supposed to be a new beginning. It is therefore meant offensive and not defensive,” said Tusk in Warsaw. Already on Monday he announced that he wanted to face this vote. The defeat of his political ally Rafal Trzaskowski in the presidential election on Sunday had brought the head of government and his center-left alliance into trouble.

In the runoff election around the Polish Presidential Office on Sunday, Nawrocki, supported by the right -wing conservative PIS, won with a narrow head start against Trzaskowski. The 42-year-old historian is independent and politically completely inexperienced. He owes his climb to Pis boss Kaczynski. He will probably take over his goal of bringing the government of Tusk to fall. Commentators in Warsaw warn that the conflict between the government and the new head of state Poland could plunge into political chaos.

Tusk has been running a center-left alliance of three parties since the end of 2023. It is the most important project in his government to reverse the damage to the rule of law, which triggered the PIS government, which was in office from 2015 to 2023, with its judicial reform. The incumbent President Andrzej Duda, who comes from the ranks of the PIS, has so far blocked corresponding draft. Nawrocki is expected to do so and possibly even proceed with larger hardness. “If Duda put a stick of the government in the spokes, then it will be two at Nawrocki”, ex-President Aleksander Kwasniewski predicts in an interview with the TV station Polsat.

Tusk: Some things should have done better and faster

Tusk said the vote of confidence should be the start of an interim assessment of the previous work of his government. “After a year and a half we know very well that we would have to do some things better and faster.” One will revise what was not successful, who is responsible for this and what consequences must follow from it.

In Poland, the head of state has more powers than the Federal President in Germany. It not only represents the country to the outside world. The President also has an impact on foreign policy, he appoints the head of government and the cabinet and is a high -commander of the Polish armed forces in the event of war. Above all, he can make life difficult with his veto law of the government. In order to abolish the President’s veto, a majority of 60 percent of MPs are required in Parliament, which Tusk’s center-left alliance does not have.

Trump congratulates Nawrocki

US President Donald Trump congratulated Nawrocki on victory. “Trump allies wins in Poland and shocked all of Europe,” Trump quoted a headline of the ultra-conservative broadcaster Newsmax on his Truth platform. “Congratulations Poland, you chose a winner,” he continued.

Trump received Nawrocki, who made no secret of his admiration for the Republican, during the election campaign in the White House. Nawrocki thanked for the congratulations. “A strong alliance with the USA and a partnership based on close cooperation is my priorities,” he wrote on X.