"I will not be running in the presidential elections," Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Thursday (May 23). He added that there is a whole group of candidates determined to fight for the presidency. When asked about Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski's candidacy, he said he would be "happy if he tried again".
Prime Minister Donald Tusk told TVP Info on Thursday that "there is a whole group of candidates determined to fight for the presidency".
"And I have a lot of work to do here. A few months or even years won't be enough to clean up everything, so I really have a lot to do," he added.
Asked if the current mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, would be Civic Platform's presidential candidate, Tusk said he would be very happy if Trzaskowski tried again.
"He was very close to victory then," he added, referring to the 2020 presidential elections.
Tusk: if not for anti-Trzaskowski machinery, he would have won
According to Tusk, the recent presidential elections "were not falsified in the sense that someone changed the results or added votes". "They were obviously unfair," he said.
"The entire state machinery was used against Trzaskowski, so I am convinced that if the elections were fully fair, if the state remained neutral during those elections, then Rafał Trzaskowski would be president," he argued.
According to the prime minister, Trzaskowski "has all it takes to be a good president". "But I know he has Warsaw in his heart and that he also has work to do, so it will be his decision. But if he decides, he will have my full support," Donald Tusk assured.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP