European elections: Tusk wants president of European Parliament to be Polish

In the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita Piotr Semka concludes that Polish Premier Donald Tusk is exploiting the question of the presidency of the European Parliament to gain an advantage against rival parties in the election campaign: "'If the [Civic Platform] PO wins I guarantee you we will have a president of the European Parliament', Donald Tusk declared in Poznań. The leaders of the PO are trying to play the patriotic card in the election campaign: … A good result in the elections would strengthen the Platform's position in the EPP [European People's Party] and this in turn would secure the post of head of the European Parliament for the PO's candidate, Jerzy Buzek, and thus bolster Poland's position [inside the EU]. Thus, they [the leaders of the PO] are unequivocally suggesting that votes given to the [national conservative] PiS or the Left are wasted."

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