2024-10-27 21:44 update: 2024-10-28, 20:03
Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański
Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has called on coalition partners to maintain unity in the 2025 presidential race.
Tusk wrote on the X platform on Saturday that the governing coalition's strategy for the presidential election "must be built on three foundations."
"The parties field the best candidates; we don't attack our people in the first round; we all support (unequivocally!) whoever goes through to the second round. To win by maintaining unity - that is our goal," he said.
Earlier that day, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the president of the centre-right Polish People's Party (PSL), making up part of the coalition, invited his partners in the government to select a presidential candidate for the 2025 election jointly.
Next August, Poles will cast their ballots for a new president, which means the end of the second and last cadence for the current head of state, Andrzej Duda. After last year's general election, which brought a pro-European coalition to power, Duda remains the main representative of the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party. (PAP)
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