2023-12-11 21:04:00
The national conservatives of PiS (Law and Justice) will have played for time until the end, but Donald Tusk will have ended up rising to the head of the Polish executive, this Monday, December 11 in the evening.
It took almost two months after the parliamentary elections of October 15 for the three major victorious political groups, from the democratic opposition and oscillating from the left to the center right, to be able to elect their candidate, Donald Tusk, to the post of Prime Minister. . 248 deputies placed their trust in him out of 460, exactly the seats that the democratic opposition won last fall.
“This is an extraordinary day,” Donald Tusk told the gathering Monday. “We will fix everything together, tomorrow,” he assured. The new Prime Minister presents his general policy speech to the lower house this Tuesday as well as his government, which must be approved by the deputies.
In Poland, restoring the rule of law promises to be difficult
Return after the European parenthesis
Earlier on Monday, outgoing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who had been invested in vain by the President of the Republic, Andrzej Duda, with the mission of forming a new government, had not obtained the desired vote of confidence .
Aged 66, Donald Tusk, a notable figure in Polish politics and Prime Minister from 2007 to 2014, will have succeeded in his challenge to return to politics in his country after having left it to chair the European Council between 2014 and 2019. A digression Brussels extended until 2021, and which many criticized him within his own camp, while the national conservative PiS triumphed in the parliamentary elections of 2015 then 2019.
Originally from Kashubia, a region located west of Gdansk, with a distinct identity and language, the sixty-year-old remains a divisive politician. His opponents within the PiS, but also part of the Polish left, criticize him for an ultraliberal economic policy, carried out at a time when Poland was riding on insolent economic growth. According to a recent poll commissioned by the daily Rzeczpospolita, 31% of Poles questioned say they have a positive opinion about him while 41% of them believe that Donald Tusk will be a “bad” Prime Minister, or even that he will be “disastrous” .
“We’re giving him a chance, it’s the refusal of PiS politics, of its lies, which unites us and I hope that no Pole will want to return to it,” explains Jan Charzynski, a high school student. 17-year-old who decided to spend three hours of his evening in a large cinema in the capital, Warsaw, to follow the live broadcast of the session in Parliament. For him, one of the priorities will be to legalize abortion. A vote which promises to be difficult given that the government coalition promises to be divided on the issue.
And then, the future government of Donald Tusk will have to count on the possible veto of the President – elected from PiS – on future burning issues of which abortion is part but also on the budget, the reestablishment of the rule of law, depoliticization public media or even the release of post-Covid 19 recovery funds from the European Union of which Poland was deprived for violations of the rule of law.
Polish democracy has won
new wind
In any case, the change is perceptible in the lower house, where its new president Szymon Holownia, a former television star, is breaking popularity records. On the first day of the new assembly, the elected official broke down the barriers that prevented citizens from protesting under PiS. At the end of November, the new majority also set up three commissions of inquiry into scandals which had shaken public opinion under PiS: the organization in the midst of a pandemic of presidential elections by correspondence in 2020, a project ultimately aborted; the surveillance by Pegasus software of prominent opposition figures or even “the visa scandal”, which broke out last September, consisting of granting visas to foreigners in exchange for bribes.
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