Tusk Gets His Chance to Bring Poland Back From the ‘Dark Side’
The former European Council president was involved in managing the Greek crisis and the fallout from Brexit. His next challenge is to steer his homeland in a new direction.
Donald Tusk speaks during an election night rally at the party headquarters in Warsaw on Sunday.
Photographer: Damian Lemański/BloombergDonald Tusk returned to Gdansk with a message for the Polish opposition. “Don’t give up,” he told thousands of supporters gathered at a rally in the Polish port city, “even if you lose the first match.”
That was June 2019 and Tusk, the European Council president and a former Polish prime minister, was taking time out from the Brexit process to return to his hometown on the Baltic coast to push the liberal movement ahead of a difficult election. The biggest opposition party had a leader who was struggling to unite various factions and, as Tusk suggested, the ruling Law and Justice party strolled to a second term.