After the presidential election: Poland’s head of government wants to recover Kabinett in July

Poland’s Proeuropean Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced a cabinet environment for July. There will be a change in the structure, but also “new faces”, Tusk said in his government declaration before a vote in parliament in Warsaw.

The 68-year-old Tusk had scheduled the vote of trust after his camp was defeated in the presidential election on June 1st. The liberal candidate Rafal Trzaskowski, a close colleague of Tusks, lost the race for the highest state office against the right -wing conservative Karol Nawrocki, which is supported by the opposition PIS. This was also a heavy slump for the head of government. Tusk was fighting in his government declaration: “I know the taste of victory and the bitterness of the defeat, but I don’t know a word: surrender”.

Nawrocki’s victory means that Tusk’s center-left government is not progressed in its central reform projects, such as the liberalization of the right to abortion and the depoliticization of the judiciary. “We expect two and a half years of heavier, serious work under conditions that don’t get better,” said Tusk. In Poland, the President can block new laws by veto. Nawrocki has already announced that after taking office on August 6, Tusk could be prepared for “strong resistance from the presidential palace”.

Tusk: Poland plays again in the extra class of world politics

In his speech to Poland’s flourishing economy, the expansion of the welfare state and the foreign policy merits of his government referred to Tusk: “Poland has returned to the extra class of world politics.” A record number of 267 MPs has registered questions for the subsequent pronunciation in parliament before the vote of trust.