Poland questions legality of Tusk’s EU re-election
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s foreign minister on Monday challenged the legality of Donald Tusk’s re-election to a top European Union job, saying the vote was “fake” and that it exposed the EU as having “double standards.”
The view wasn’t shared by the aides to President Andrzej Duda.
Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, was re-elected for a second 2 1/2-year term as European Council head at a recent EU summit in Brussels.
Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said that the summit took a “pseudo-vote” on Tusk, by only asking who was “against,” but not who was “for” or who abstained. Waszczykowski told TVN24 that there was no vote on Poland’s counter-candidate.