Poland’s new President-elect, Karol Nawrocki, doesn’t take office until August 6, but he’s already pushed the nation’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, into early action.
Tusk has scheduled a vote of confidence in Parliament on June 11 on his coalition government. AP reports,
There are questions about whether Tusk’s fragile coalition can survive until the next scheduled parliamentary election at the end of 2027. Some political opponents are calling for him to step down.
AP adds,
Observers believe that he’s likely to survive the vote next week and be in a position to continue governing Poland as its most powerful official. The parties in his coalition still hold a majority in parliament.
I wonder if those are the same “observers” who didn’t think Nawrocki could win? Tusk, in in his second stint as Prime Minister, heads one of those chimeric left/right coalitions so common on the continent.
The coalition members have no natural areas of policy agreement except the desire to keep the so-called “far right” out of power. You can vote for conservative government all you want, but you can never seem to get it.
In Poland, the elected President has less power than the one in, say, France. But he is more than a mere figurehead, having a veto over Parliament and control over foreign policy.
Tusk may survive the confidence vote next week, but his government may not make it all the way to 2027.
