Polish Nationalists Face Ballot Risk as Tusk Woos Pro-EU Base
- Tusk seeks to tap into 1989 energy to topple ruling party
- Ruling party to hold convention after series of scandals
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Poland’s highest-ranking European Union official, Donald Tusk, called on his countrymen to form a wide pro-European movement to oust the ruling nationalists in this year’s elections as a new opinion poll showed a united opposition has a chance to win power.
Tusk, a former two-time Polish prime minister who as the president of the European Council sets agendas for EU summits, wants to challenge the Law & Justice party, which has clashed with Brussels over democratic standards. It’s not clear what role he wants to play or how the opposition will organize itself before May’s European parliament vote and this autumn’s general elections.