Tusk Says Ballot Recount Shouldn’t Reverse Presidential Vote

Rafal Trzaskowski and Donald Tusk during the last election rally. 

Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said suspected voting irregularities in the country’s June 1 presidential election were unlikely to lead to a reversal of the victory of nationalist Karol Nawrocki.

The premier repeated his call for a recount of votes from some polling stations in the contest after his ally, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, was narrowly defeated. Poland’s Supreme Court, which validates the result, received thousands of complaints after the tight election.