Tusk survives confidence - resistance from the presidential palace!

Tusk survives confidence - resistance from the presidential palace!

Polen - On June 11, 2025, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk won the vote in parliament and was able to win the trust of 243 of the 453 MPs present. This vote took place in a tense political context, after the defeat of his pro -European camp in the presidential election on June 1st. In this, the population chose the right -wing Karol Nawrocki from the opposition Pis as the new president, who won just 51 percent of the vote against the liberal candidate Rafał Trzaskowski. The vote was crucial for Tusk to secure the backing of his heterogeneous center-left coalition formed in 2023. In his speech, the Prime Minister emphasized that he had a mandate to rule and wanted to take responsibility for the future of Poland. He also announced that he was redesigning his cabinet in July and introducing "new faces".

The outcome of the vote is an important victory for Tusk, especially since Nawrocki's supporters were not present during his speech in the plenary hall. The coalition partners Tusk apparently secured that despite the defeat in the presidential election, a closed procedure is held. The coalition currently has 242 of a total of 460 seats in the SEJM, which required a simple majority for the question of trust and was thus achieved. Tusk also wants to create a stable basis for its most important projects, in particular the cancellation of the rights of the rule of law caused by the PIS government between 2015 and 2023.

political challenges and projects

The political challenges, however, are significant, since Nawrocki, who will take office on August 6, announced that Tusk had to expect “strong resistance from the President Palace”. Nawrocki is a non -party historian who is closely connected to Jarosław Kaczyński, the head of the PIS, and was supported by him. In this function, the President in Poland has more power than the Federal President in Germany and can block laws with his veto law.

tusk will therefore have to adapt to a direction of direction between his pro -European course and the conservative resistance of the new presidential administration. In his government statement, the Prime Minister reported on foreign policy successes, such as a friendship and cooperation agreement with France and the military support of Ukraine. He also emphasized the successes in the border fortification to combat irregular migration with the help of the EU, with Poland and the EU accuse the Belarusian ruler Lukaschenko to bring people to the Polish border.