{"id":329,"date":"2026-04-11T05:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/329\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:14:44","slug":"pro-maga-president-fights-pro-eu-prime-minister-for-control-of-poland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/329\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-MAGA president fights pro-EU prime minister for control of Poland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

POLITICO’s Poll of Polls<\/a> shows Tusk’s Civic Coalition is comfortably ahead with the support of 34 percent of voters, while PiS trails at 26 percent. However, the smaller parties that make up Tusk’s coalition aren’t doing well and he’d be unlikely to form the next government.<\/p>\n

Just behind PiS are two far-right parties, the libertarian Confederation at 13 percent and the antisemitic Confederation of the Polish Crown with 8 percent. However, those parties are in deep conflict with PiS, and it’s unclear if they’d be able to form a stable coalition.<\/p>\n

That’s forcing PiS to scramble to appeal to conservative voters, making Nawrocki’s SAFE veto a key political move. A survey out this week<\/a> by the Ibris organization found that 56.9 percent of those polled were opposed to Nawrocki’s SAFE veto while 33.8 percent supported it.<\/p>\n

While many voters are leery of the effort to block SAFE, the right-wing Republika television <\/a>denounced the loan program with comments like: “HERR DONALD F\u00dcR DEUTSCHLAND,” and, “A gang of traitors and Volksdeutsches is trying to saddle Poles with billions of euros in debt to Germany” \u2014 playing to anti-German stereotypes common among the Polish right. Berlin isn’t taking a SAFE loan as it can borrow more cheaply on its own.<\/p>\n

\"\"Poland’s new President Karol Nawrocki (right) and his predecessor Andrzej Duda wave as Nawrocki takes over the Presidential Palace on Aug. 6, 2025 in Warsaw. | Sergei Gapon\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that blocking the law on realizing SAFE investments is an internal battle among the extreme right,\u201d said Deputy Defense Minister Pawe\u0142 Zalewski, adding that PiS had supported SAFE until it saw the rising danger from rival far-right parties. \u201cIt\u2019s a battle for the anti-EU electorate. The danger is real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Playing the Polexit card<\/p>\n

Tusk is hoping to capitalize on the situation by warning of the danger of a Polexit. EU membership is still overwhelmingly popular in Poland \u2014 which has for years been one of the bloc’s best-performing economies. However, support is slowly eroding. A CBOS poll last month<\/a> found that 82 percent of Poles support being in the EU, down from 92 percent in 2002; among conservative voters, only two-thirds back the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLITICO’s Poll of Polls shows Tusk’s Civic Coalition is comfortably ahead with the support of 34 percent of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[414,64,415,416,417,418,419,9,420,421,422,423],"class_list":{"0":"post-329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-defense-budgets","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-emissions-trading-system","11":"tag-european-defense","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-jacek-saryusz-wolski","14":"tag-karol-nawrocki","15":"tag-poland","16":"tag-polish-politics","17":"tag-rule-of-law","18":"tag-u-s-politics","19":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}