© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Polish politician Donald Tusk, chief of Civic Coalition (KO) and the opposition’s candidate for future Prime Minister, seems to be on, on the day of his assembly with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, Belgium October 25
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By Anna Koper and Pawel Florkiewicz
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s parliament voted in favour of Donald Tusk turning into prime minister on Monday, placing an finish to eight years of nationalist rule and setting the stage for a thawing of relations with the European Union.
Poland has seen tens of billions of euros of European Union funds frozen attributable to a dispute with Brussels over democratic requirements, however Tusk, a former European Council president, has vowed to fix relations and unblock the money.
248 had been in favour of Tusk turning into prime minister and 201 had been towards.
“He gave up the comfortable life he could have had after being president of the European Council and came back… to fight for the victory of democracy, decency and justice,” mentioned Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, chief of the Polish Peasants’ Get together (PSL), which kinds a part of the coalition Tusk leads.
Earlier within the day former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of the nationalist Regulation and Justice (PiS) get together misplaced a vote of confidence.
Critics say PiS undermined judicial independence, turned state-owned media right into a propaganda outlet and fomented prejudice towards minorities corresponding to immigrants and the LGBT neighborhood.
PiS says that it defended Poland’s sovereignty and traditions from overseas interference throughout its time in energy, whereas enhancing residing requirements for thousands and thousands of Poles by introducing social advantages and elevating the minimal wage.
Tusk will give a speech to parliament on Tuesday laying out his authorities’s plans.
(This story has been corrected to repair the variety of votes towards Tusk in paragraph 3)
