Today, the Prime Minister asked the Sejm to vote of assurance for the government. In his speech to Members, Donald Tusk summed up the achievements of the government coalition to date, emphasising safety issues. “We have turned words and slogans into deeds,” he said, while criticizing Mateusz Morawiecki’s cabinet for defence activities.
On Wednesday, there was a debate in the Sejm about giving the government a vote of confidence. Members' questions were preceded by a speech by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
When mentioning the achievements of the government, the Prime Minister first pointed to the safety achievements. He highlighted the unprecedented increase in defence spending. "On October 15, erstwhile compared to the last year of the PiS rule, we spent as much as 67% more on defense," he said. “This is real money spent to defend the Polish territory, the Polish border, the Polish army,” he assured.
Shield East – investment from Polish and European funds
As a standard example of initiatives improving the safety of Poland Tusk gave Tarcza East programme. “This is the biggest defensive accomplishment that protects us from threats,” said the head of government. “You know what the barrier at the border looked like, and what it looks like today,” he said. Donald Tusk explained that this effect was achieved through crucial financial contributions. Although he admitted that the government of Mateusz Morawiecki frequently raised the issue Suwałski Pass, as a place that may become the subject of an attack by the Russian and Belarusian forces, but, as Tusk argued, these were only words that did not translate into actual defence efforts.
– We have invested very large money, and – and I am peculiarly pleased – we besides have the chance to invest not only Polish money, but besides European money in the protection of, among others, this fragment of our border – provided the Prime Minister. He thus referred to Poland's participation in EU grant programmes low-interest loans from the EU budget for defence investments (SAFE) whether to get consent from European partners to allocate any of the KPO funds to security.
Alliances for safe Poland
Donald Tusk drew attention to global alliances, which the government includes with a view to expanding Poland's position on the global arena and its security. As he said, Poland "returned to an extraclass". In this context he mentioned among others. on the signing of an enhanced cooperation treaty with France. “We have for the first time a commitment of a large state, a atomic power, to full common defence in the event of an attack,” he explained. He besides informed that there was work on a akin treaty with the United Kingdom at the end.
Poland, as Prime Minister Tusk pointed out, now has the best relations in past with the United States and is 1 of the most serious European allies of this empire.
Prime Minister Tusk announced the beginning of August 15 Warsaw conflict Museum in Ossów.
Donald Tusk besides devoted much attention to migration issues, which were 1 of the most frequently discussed topics during the fresh presidential campaign. He pointed out that by 2025 50% little visas for African and Asian migrants would be issued. "I will never be persuaded to have xenophobic racist narratives, but we know that social fears affect these migrants for various reasons," he explained. The Prime Minister besides recalled that it was on his initiative that asylum policy was changed and the right to apply for global protection at the border with Belarus was limited.
The Prime Minister's motion for a vote of assurance is scheduled for the evening. A simple majority of votes is needed in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of Members.
