Donald Tusk: next two weeks will ‘decide future of Poland’

The next two weeks will “decide the future of Poland”, its prime minister, Donald Tusk, has warned, as the country prepares for a presidential runoff vote on 1 June after a nail-bitingly close first round. Trzaskowski had long been seen as the frontrunner, whose election would allow Poland to end the months-long standoff between the centrist-led parliament and populist right presidency. Tusk and his coalition took power in 2023, promising to reverse the erosion of democratic checks and balances that had marked PiS’s eight years in government. As the closer-than-anticipated result rolled in on Sunday night, Tusk took to social media to try to galvanise voters. Everything was at stake now, he wrote, adding that “the next two weeks will decide the future” of Poland.