Next May’s presidential vote is effectively referendum on whether Donald Tusk’s government can rule freely
Donald Tusk’s coalition has not yet achieved many of the tasks he set, partly down to Andrzej Duda’s presidential veto but also divisions within his own government.Donald Tusk’s coalition has not yet achieved many of the tasks he set, partly down to Andrzej Duda’s presidential veto but also divisions within his own government.
On Saturday, Tusk’s Civic Coalition announced that the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, would be its candidate in next spring’s vote, after he won a primary inside the party against the foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski.“I have a very strong mandate and a lot of energy, determination and courage to beat PiS,” Trzaskowski said on Saturday.
In its first months, the new government made a few bold steps. The new justice minister, the respected law professor and rights defender Adam Bodnar, made enoughabout improving the rule-of-law climate in Poland for Brussels to unblock billions of euros of funding frozen under the previous government.
Several different draft bills have floated around parliament over the past year, but in an embarrassing moment for Tusk’s government, one that had been expected to pass in July was defeated by three votes, with the more conservative MPs from the ruling coalition joining with PiS to vote against it. Earlier this month, MPs finally voted to send the bill forward, and it is now under review by a parliamentary committee, where further revisions are expected.
Still, she said the change of tone in the debate at least counted for something. “Although a still-restrictive abortion law exists, the procedures are so much more relaxed and changed that women are much more secure. It is not satisfying, but it’s still a little bit better,” she said, in an interview at the ministry building in central Warsaw.
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