Poland’s opposition says it’s ready to take power with Donald Tusk as premier

Published October 24,2023

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The leaders of Poland’s opposition alliance that gained a majority in elections on Oct. 15 stated on Tuesday they’re able to take energy, with Donald Tusk as prime minister.


The three opposition groups-the centrist Civic Coalition (KO), center-right Third Way (Trzecia Droga) and The Left (Lewica)-won a majority of 248 seats within the 460-seat Sejm, decrease home of parliament. The ruling national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) social gathering gained 194 seats, forward of KO which got here in second with 157 seats.

“We confirm our preparedness to cooperate fully and create a new majority in the next parliament,” Tusk, a former European Council president, stated, including he can be the coalition’s candidate for prime minister.


Tusk additionally referred to as on President Andrzej Duda to not delay the method. Duda started talks on Tuesday with parliamentary social gathering leaders on the long run authorities.

Tusk will go to Brussels this week for talks on unblocking €36 billion ($38 billion) from the EU’s post-pandemic restoration funds blocked on account of alleged democratic backsliding underneath the PiS-led authorities since 2015.

At a press convention in Warsaw on Tuesday, authorities spokesman Piotr Muller stated that if the president designates a candidate for prime minister from the PiS camp, “they will attempt to create a majority government.”


Earlier, Mariusz Blaszczak, Poland’s protection minister, instructed public Radio One that PiS – as the biggest social gathering within the parliamentary elections – ought to proceed to control.

“I think that the democratic custom that exists in Poland will be maintained, in which the winning political party undertakes the mission of creating a government. PiS won the elections, clearly. So, I think the president will make such a decision,” Blaszczak stated.


Some PiS MPs have floated the concept of holding talks with the Polish People’s Party (PSL), an agrarian group that’s a part of the Third Way, however a coalition seems unlikely to occur.