{"id":21654,"date":"2024-01-16T12:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/polands-crucial-local-elections-will-be-held-in-april-newly-appointed-prime-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:13:24","slug":"polands-crucial-local-elections-will-be-held-in-april-newly-appointed-prime-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/polands-crucial-local-elections-will-be-held-in-april-newly-appointed-prime-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s crucial local elections will be held in April, newly appointed prime minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Poland\u2019s new Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday crucial elections to choose city mayors and provincial and county administration leaders would be held April 7, with a runoff April 21.<\/p>\n

The elections will test the new pro-European Union coalition government’s popular support, just six months after it won parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

POLAND’S PRESIDENT AND NEW PRIME MINISTER REMAIN DIVIDED ON RULE OF LAW DESPITE TALKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tusk and his Cabinet took office last month, vowing to restore the importance and powers of city mayors and local governments which the previous right-wing government sought to limit. Local administrations suffered slashed funding and stalled projects and investments.<\/p>\n

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Just six months after defeating the ruling Law and Justice party, Poland’s new government will be tested in local elections.<\/span> (Photo by STR\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“I hope that April will prove to be a good month for Poland’s local government activists,” the premier said.<\/p>\n

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Tensions between the new government and the previously ruling Law and Justice party, now the opposition, and its ally President Andrzej Duda, have escalated.<\/p>\n

Law and Justice has been delaying government-proposed bills in parliament. Duda has vetoed a bill on state media funding and his aide warned the president will keep rejecting the cabinet’s proposals.<\/p>\n

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