{"id":1107,"date":"2026-04-13T04:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/1107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:32:41","slug":"polands-tusk-reshuffles-government-to-recover-from-election-earthquake-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/1107\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s Tusk reshuffles government to recover from election \u2018earthquake\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodnar had come under fire for the slow pace of fixing the judiciary after the previous Law and Justice (PiS) party government and prosecuting former officials facing allegations of abuse of power and corruption. This became a major cause of frustration for supporters of Tusk\u2019s four-party coalition, which won power in late 2023.<\/p>\n

The sense that the government was adrift was one of the factors that led to the defeat of Warsaw Mayor Rafa\u0142 Trzaskowski, the candidate of Tusk\u2019s Civic Platform party in the presidential election, to PiS-backed Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing hardliner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe time of post-election trauma ends today,\u201d Tusk said, admitting it will be a \u201cdifficult road\u201d for his government to regain its footing.<\/p>\n

The big winner in the reshuffle is Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski, a conservative, who now becomes a deputy prime minister. This is part of a broader shift to the right by Tusk as he tries to block the rise of PiS and the far-right Confederation party by restoring border controls <\/a>to clamp down on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

The prime minister pledged his refreshed Cabinet will focus on \u201corder, security, and the future,\u201d framing these priorities in the context of \u201caggressive Russia and Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a black swan reality, but we won\u2019t let it surprise us,\u201d Tusk said, vowing to eliminate Russian and Belarusian efforts to destabilize Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodnar had come under fire for the slow pace of fixing the judiciary after the previous Law and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[694,64,419,9,695,420,367,967,421],"class_list":{"0":"post-1107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-andrzej-duda","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-karol-nawrocki","11":"tag-poland","12":"tag-poland-election-2025","13":"tag-polish-politics","14":"tag-radoslaw-sikorski","15":"tag-rafal-trzaskowski","16":"tag-rule-of-law"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}