Speaking at the start of a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Tusk directly responded to a statement made a day earlier by outgoing President Andrzej Duda.
In a post on the social media platform X, Duda claimed that "post-communists together with the liberal-left" appeared to be trying to "overturn the already decided presidential election in Poland" and warned that this effort was threatening “the last remnants of democracy and freedom” in the country.
Tusk rejected this narrative, saying: “I haven’t seen any leader of our coalition trying to stir unrest or question the election result.”
He added that the government is handling the situation “calmly and rationally, in accordance with the constitution, electoral law and basic human decency.”
At the same time, Tusk said that reports of irregularities in the vote count, however minor, must not be ignored.
“Nobody, regardless of the office they hold, even the highest office in the state, has the right to dismiss even a single lost vote,” he said.
Media outlets have in recent days reported apparent discrepancies in vote counts at some polling stations, including reversed reporting of tallies between candidates in the southern city of Kraków and the eastern town of Mińsk Mazowiecki.
Tusk also addressed growing controversy surrounding what has become known as the "Matecki app," an unofficial digital tool allegedly used to verify voting certificates during the election.
He emphasized that the issue is not about vote tampering or miscounting, but the potential commission of a crime.
Prosecutors asked to probe app promoted by opposition MP
According to Tusk, Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has submitted a notice to the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office regarding the app, which was promoted by the right-wing Election Monitoring Movement.
The app was intended to verify voting credentials, but authorities are now investigating whether it interfered with the election process.
The case is being pursued under Article 249 of Poland’s penal code, which concerns unlawful interference with elections.
The app was publicly promoted on election day by Dariusz Matecki, a lawmaker from the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS), who encouraged polling station workers aligned with the Election Monitoring Movement to use it when checking voters’ documents.
A separate investigation by the police is examining possible violations of personal data protection.
(rt/gs)
Source: IAR, PAP