Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday he would seek a vote of confidence in parliament on June 11, following Rafal Trzaskowski's defeat in the weekend's presidential election.
Tusk announced this decision just a few hours after the election results, saying that he had agreed on the date for the session with the speaker of the parliament, Szymon Holownia.
Tusk's center-left coalition, which is set to take office in late 2023, has faced pressure since liberal candidate and Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski was defeated in Sunday's presidential election.
The conservative Karol Nawrocki won the elections.
Nawrocki, who ran on behalf of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, won 50.89 percent of the vote, while pro-European Trzaskowski, who had Tusk's support, won 49.11 percent of the vote.
Nawrocki's victory is expected to complicate Tusk's efforts to advance pro-European government policies, as Nawrocki will have veto power over legislation.
In Poland, the president serves a five-year term, represents the state abroad, shapes foreign policy, appoints the prime minister and cabinet, and serves as commander-in-chief of the army in case of war.
The outgoing president, Andrzej Duda – who like Nawrocki is with the PiS party – has used his veto power several times to block the government's agenda.
Nawrocki is expected to continue at the same pace, or even more intensively, and this risks creating internal problems within the government coalition.
Tusk's administration states that its central objective is to improve the damage caused to the rule of law by the Law and Justice-led government, which was in power from 2015 to 2023, and has changed the justice system in ways that are seen as very harmful to the independence of the judiciary./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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