Poland’s New Parliament Party May Help Spur Tusk’s Overhaul

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who won an unprecedented second consecutive election, may receive a boost to plans for an economic overhaul from a new parliamentary party.

The Palikot movement, founded by a vodka distiller who quit Tusk’s Civic Platform party last year, received 10 percent of the votes in the Oct. 9 election, beating opinion polls. The group may provide Tusk a lever against complacency within his own party and the reluctance of the Peasants Party, his ally in the past four years, to support some policies.