WARSAW — A war of words has broken out between Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Donald Tusk, the likely head of the next government, presaging what’s looking to be a difficult cohabitation between the political rivals.
Rather than simply rolling over and allowing Tusk to set Poland on a new course in line with the EU mainstream, Duda is laying down a gauntlet that he will use his presidential powers to thwart a new administration.
After the October 15 election, where a coalition of opposition parties won a parliamentary majority, Duda still chose outgoing PiS Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to take the first try at forming a government.
The proposed coalition headed by Tusk has 248 seats in the lower house of parliament, a solid majority but far from the 276 votes needed to override any veto from Duda.
In a speech to parliament a week ago, Duda defended the record of the outgoing PiS government and issued a threat to veto legislation that he feels might undo the party’s flagship achievements like expanded social welfare payments or any attempts to “limit, undermine or question the constitutional powers of the president.”
Before the election, Civic Coalition said it would haul Duda before the State Tribunal, a special body that tries senior officials, for appointing improperly nominated judges in a bid to support PiS’s judicial reforms.
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WARSAW — A war of words has broken out between Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Donald Tusk, the likely head of the next government, presaging what’s looking to be a difficult cohabitation between the political rivals.
Rather than simply rolling over and allowing Tusk to set Poland on a new course in line with the EU mainstream, Duda is laying down a gauntlet that he will use his presidential powers to thwart a new administration.
After the October 15 election, where a coalition of opposition parties won a parliamentary majority, Duda still chose outgoing PiS Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to take the first try at forming a government.
The proposed coalition headed by Tusk has 248 seats in the lower house of parliament, a solid majority but far from the 276 votes needed to override any veto from Duda.
In a speech to parliament a week ago, Duda defended the record of the outgoing PiS government and issued a threat to veto legislation that he feels might undo the party’s flagship achievements like expanded social welfare payments or any attempts to “limit, undermine or question the constitutional powers of the president.”
Before the election, Civic Coalition said it would haul Duda before the State Tribunal, a special body that tries senior officials, for appointing improperly nominated judges in a bid to support PiS’s judicial reforms.
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