"From today, we are called the Civic Coalition (KO)—because as the Civic Coalition we have already won elections, and we will win the next ones,” Tusk told supporters at a convention bringing together the Civic Platform (PO), Modern and Polish Initiative parties.
“We don’t need to invent anything new or use any tricks—only truth, strength and goodness,” he said.
Tusk told the convention that "no one should have any doubts or be pessimistic” because the ruling coalition was polling at around 35 percent and was on track to extend its hold on power.
“Poland will remain safe and a valued partner as long as we govern and win against those who want to ruin it,” Tusk declared.
The convention took place on the same weekend as a gathering of the opposition right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party in the southern city of Katowice.
Tusk said the timing was deliberate, calling PiS’ message one of “complete isolation” and “helplessness in the face of potential Russian aggression.”
Referring to PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński’s anti-EU rhetoric, Tusk said the opposition’s main enemy appeared to be “Europe itself—the European Union, Germany and France” rather than Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Tusk, a former president of the European Council, returned to Polish politics in 2021 and led the Civic Coalition to power after the October 2023 elections, ending eight years of right-wing PiS rule.
Poland’s Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz on Friday slammed Kaczyński over his anti-German remarks, saying the country’s security threat "comes from the east, not the west," amid Russia’s war against neighbouring Ukraine.
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Source: TVP Info, IAR, PAP