Poland\u2019s president has a national mandate and can propose and veto legislation (which Tusk\u2019s coalition doesn\u2019t have the votes to override), but the country\u2019s domestic and foreign policies are largely under the control of the government run by the prime minister.<\/p>\n
PiS legislators clapped and chanted Nawrocki\u2019s name during the speech, while Tusk and members of his Cabinet looked on solemnly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to speak to all Poles for whom today is a sad and disappointing day. I know very well how you feel. I understand you,\u201d\u00a0Tusk said\u00a0in a video published just minutes<\/a> before Nawrocki\u2019s inauguration. \u201cWe all believed that honesty, goodness, and love would prevail. What has happened puts our faith to a serious test.\u201d <\/p>\n Nawrocki also referenced the bitter election campaign<\/a>, where he was dogged by scandals <\/a>ranging from a football hooligan past to a property deal that triggered a criminal probe and accusations (which he denies) that he provided prostitutes to hotel guests while working as a security guard.<\/p>\n He said he won \u201cin spite of electoral propaganda and lies. In spite of political theater and in spite of the contempt,\u201d something he said he would \u201cforgive as a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n The new president laid out his agenda until the end of his five-year term, and there are many areas that will clash with Tusk\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s president has a national mandate and can propose and veto legislation (which Tusk\u2019s coalition doesn\u2019t have the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[694,414,676,64,442,419,9,695,696,420,421,127,423,444],"class_list":{"0":"post-693","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-defense-budgets","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","13":"tag-karol-nawrocki","14":"tag-poland","15":"tag-poland-election-2025","16":"tag-polish-election-2023","17":"tag-polish-politics","18":"tag-rule-of-law","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}