Donald Tusk has been nominated to be Poland’s next prime minister after an effort to delay the result of elections was undone by a parliamentary vote.
The unseating of Mateusz Morawiecki and his Law and Justice party (PiS) is set to hand power to Tusk, 66, who was the country’s prime minister between 2007 and 2014, and a coalition of minor parties. It also effectively ended eight years of a government that has polarised Poland and pitted the country against the European Union.
Voters backed Tusk in October elections to return Poland towards better relations with Brussels, representing a seismic shift from the combative anti-German, Eurosceptic nationalism of Morawiecki’s administration.
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