Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has called for a parliamentary confidence vote after PiS-backed conservative historian Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election.
Nawrocki is critical of Brussels’s migration policies and its Net Zero agenda, and he opposes the government’s progressive agenda on LGBTQ rights.
He won Sunday’s runoff in the EU and NATO member state with 51% of the vote to 49% for Tusk’s liberal ally, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski.
In a televised address, former EU chief Tusk said on Monday, June 2nd, that he wanted the confidence vote “soon” and vowed to stay on, adding that the election “will not change anything.”
His comments came shortly after opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński (PiS) said that Poles had shown him the “red card.” Kaczyński called for a “technical” government of experts to replace the current one.
Tusk’s announcement to hold a vote of confidence appears to be nothing more than a publicity stunt—he currently enjoys a majority in parliament and will likely receive the support of his left-liberal coalition partners.
