Donald Tusk will call vote of confidence after Polish election setback

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

Is he going to repeat Macron's masterful gambit from last year?

[nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info]

Allegedly, Tusk's response to his protégé losing presidential election to a far-right gangster is making a universally disliked far-right lawyer his Secretary of Justice to replace a mediocre minister, but popular human rights activist. So even worse

[saleh@feddit.org]

Scratch a Liberal and a Fascist bleeds.

[el_bhm@lemm.ee]

ruskies are not at the gate just yet.

[melchior@feddit.org]

Kaliningrad....

[zergtoshi@lemmy.world]

Well, attacks can come from within with support from outside.

[rustydrd@sh.itjust.works]

Isn't this a bit of an overreaction for an election that was decided by fewer than 400,000 votes? Why even look for symbolic support when the "loss" you suffered was within 1% of the other guy?

[nunam@lemmy.world]

Yes and no. Current coalition government does not have enough votes to overturn presidential veto, making it impossible to pass any bill level laws that president does not agree to.

In my opinion he’s polling to see if they just want to wing it and submit the “popular” bills and blame all on the president if he vetoes.

They can also try and govern with lower level acts like decrees which do not require presidential signature and therefore are not subject to vetoes.

That has a drawback of affecting mostly cosmetic changes, and with parliamentary elections in 2 years might be deadly to the coalition. Especially with growing far right support, in the first round of the presidential election far right candidates got over 51% of the votes.

[el_bhm@lemm.ee]

Most of the forces from Kaliningrad are in Ukraine.

You know. If power hungry imperialistic NATO westoids wanted to grab it, now would be the time. Especially since there are nukes there.

But for some reason no one wants it.

[notagamer@lemmy.org]

But they did just elect a man who will throw open the gates when Russia is.