Poland’s Tusk Seeks Swift Handover of Power After Election Win
- President has 30 days to designate leader to form government
- Duda may buck tradition and appoint Tusk to lead Poland
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Poland’s opposition leader Donald Tusk called on the nation’s president to quickly start the process of handing over power after his party and its allies won a parliamentary majority in Sunday’s election.
Tusk’s Civic Platform won 157 seats in Poland’s lower house of parliament, while the Third Way alliance had 65 and the Left party 26, according to calculations based on final results confirmed by the National Electoral Commission on Tuesday. That would give the three factions 248 seats in the 460-seat legislature.