Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday announced that He asks the Lower Chamber of Parliament (SEJ) to pronounce their government’s trust. Responded to the victory of the opposition candidate Karol Nawrocký on Sunday’s presidential election, TASR reports according to AP and AFP reports.
In television, Tusk said that “he will soon ask for a vote for confidence in the Lower Chamber of Parliament”. He also expressed the hope that he would be able to cooperate with the elected President Karol Nawrocký.
If Parliament does not say confidence to the government, Tusk will have to resign And Sejm will have 14 days to design a new prime minister candidate, who must gain confidence in an absolute majority of the deputies present.
TUSK SA He has applied for the confidence of Parliament twice, in October 2012 and in June 2014, and in both cases SEJM told him. The current initiative comes shortly after the presidential election, in which the candidate of the government civic platform Rafal Trzaskowski failed.
Szymon Holownia, chairman of Szymon Holownia, has previously described the Prime Ministers as a theatrical gesture. At the same time, he indicated that his party may take a restrained attitude when voting on confidencesince it was not officially informed of the intention. According to Holownia, Tusk is partially responsible for the election failure of Rafal Trzaskowski.
Tusk further announced in television speech, that, as the Prime Minister of the Polish government, “even for a moment he will not stop in his work and in our joint struggle for Poland, which we dreamed of on the threshold of independence – free, sovereign, safe and prosperous”.
The Prime Minister also turned to those who voted for Trzaskowski. “We go on. I know how you feel … The fight never ends,” he said. According to PAP, he said that no matter how people perceive the winning candidate, they should recognize his victory and congratulate his voters.
He promised to plan to cooperate with his new head of state wherever it would be necessary and possible. According to him, however, there is also a “emergency plan” presuppose complicated communication.
Tusk added that he is It is difficult to assume in advance what the attitude of the new president will be. However, he said that if Nawrocki had a willingness to cooperate, “it would be a positive surprise to which the government would respond with full openness”.