Vote passed by 243-210 for prime minister whose preferred presidential candidate lost election this month
The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has comfortably won a vote of confidence in parliament that was called to shore up his fragile coalition government after a bruising setback in the presidential election earlier this month.
The vote of confidence on Wednesday was passed by 243 votes in favour to 210 against.
The vote was requested by Tusk after an unexpected defeat for his government’s preferred candidate in the presidential election, which prompted questions about the future of the coalition and fierce personal criticism of the prime minister.
Tusk leads an ideologically diverse and politically fragile alliance of pro-European parties, from the agrarian right to the social democratic left, which has promised to reverse the erosion of democratic checks and balances that had marked the eight-year rule of the Law and Justice party (PiS) between 2015 and 2023.
