The Polish parliament will hold a confidence vote next Wednesday following the presidential victory of an opposition candidate.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the vote on Monday after his coalition’s candidate, Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, narrowly lost to Karol Nawrocki—a Trump supporter backed by the conservative-nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS).
Parliamentary Speaker Szymon Hołownia confirmed on Tuesday that the vote is set for June 11, according to Poland’s national news agency. Nawrocki’s victory poses a challenge to Tusk’s center-right government, as the president has veto power over legislation. The outgoing president, Andrzej Duda—also from PiS—has long been an obstacle to Tusk’s agenda.
Despite this, Tusk insisted that Nawrocki’s win “changes nothing” and framed the upcoming confidence vote as a demonstration of his government’s resilience.
I want everyone, including our opponents both at home and abroad, to see that we are prepared for this moment, we understand its significance, and we will not take a single step backward, Tusk said.
With 242 seats in the 460-member lower house, Tusk’s coalition—which came to power in late 2023 after nearly a decade of PiS rule—is expected to survive the confidence vote on June 11.
