Polish PM Donald Tusk wins confidence vote

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a vote of trust in his pro-EU government after his political camp has narrowly lost the recent presidential election.

Some 243 parliamentarians voted in favor of the coalition government, with 210 votes against and no abstention.

Wednesday’s vote was a formality because Tusk’s coalition has a majority of 12 places in the lower house, the SEJM, and only a simple majority in the presence of half of the 460 parliamentarians were to win.

Before the vote, Tusk told the House that they could not “close his eyes” with reality that his government is confronted with “more challenges” thanks to the election of Karol Nawrocki, which is supported by the opposition of the law and justice (worse).

The president of Poland can veto his veto to the legislation and Nawrocki, a socially conservative supporter of the American president Donald Trump who opposes a federal entry into Europe and in Ukraine to NATO and the EU, should continue to use this power as the conservative holder, Andrzej Duda, made in the first 18 months of the term of Tusk.

Tusk’s coalition does not have a large parliamentary majority to overthrow a presidential veto. Nothing can be done on this subject, but a reconfirmation of the Parliament again puts the government of Tusk on the front, at least for the moment.

He also announced that a reshuffle of the cabinet would take place in July.

“I ask you for a vote of confidence because I have the conviction, the faith and the certainty that we have the mandate to govern, to assume full responsibility for what is happening in Poland,” said Tusk.

“We are faced with two and a half years, under difficult conditions, of complete mobilization and full responsibility.”

He referred to the recent unsuccessful attempt by the Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek to win a fourth title of French consecutive to Roland Garros, citing the famous quote from French: “Victory belongs to the most tenacious.”

The opposition to parliament would probably say that Tusk will finally be as unsuccessful as Iga Swiatek was to keep his title. A promise as empty, in fact, as the benches were during Tusk’s speech.

Tusk said his government had been more effective on questions that IS worse is proud of himself – an increase in defense expenses and harder for migration.

He argued that Poland had returned to the European table, citing a bilateral treaty recently signed with France in which the two countries declared that they would come to mutual aid of the other in the event of an attack.

In the end, he received a standing ovation from his own benches.

The problems close to the small partner of the government’s left coalition were largely absent from the speech.

There was no mention of his campaign promise to give legal abortion of Polish women until the 12th week of pregnancy.

This promise has not been nowhere to the opposition of the conservatives within the coalition and knowledge that Duda veta at the veto.

His government has also made little progress, thanks to the Vetos de Duda, on another campaign promise – eliminating the political influence of the Polish courts – which led the European Commission to bring legal action against Poland and to retain the EU funds.

Brussels released the funds after the Tusk government has promised to undo the USI judicial reform, which had the commission of standard doubles accuse.

Tusk said no one was as keen to end Poland’s legal chaos, but he knows that President elected Nawrocki will likely continue to use the veto.