The road to the Palace thrown open

29th January 2010

Tusk announces his decision not to run for the presidency

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The race to occupy Poland’s presidential palace was thrown wide open after Donald Tusk ruled himself out of the running.

Talking to reporters while on a visit to the stock exchange the prime minister said that he wanted to remain in charge of the government and oversee its plans to aid Poland’s economic recovery.

“I want to continue as prime minister ... my government has tools to achieve this goal (to maintain recovery),” he said. “To achieve it we need real power and instruments. These are with the government.

“Presidential elections are very important, but they are about prestige and great honour - not about good and effective governance. I do not want to take part in t ...

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