Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday he would seek a confidence vote from parliament after secret recordings of senior officials plunged Poland into its worst political crisis for years.
The opposition immediately called on Tusk to resign, but he has refused.
“I’m ending my statement with a motion to the parliament speaker to conduct the confidence vote as soon as possible,” Tusk told parliament, over a week after Polish news magazine Wprost started publishing the tapes.
With 235 seats in the 460-member parliament, Tusk’s two-party governing coalition — the Civic Platform (PO) and junior partner Poland’s Peasants Party (PSL) — is likely …read more
Source: Voice of America
