Analysis
Democratic Security
The Open Question of Rumen Radev
23 April 2026
A senior aide to President Andrzej Duda has dismissed speculation that he might block the appointment of Donald Tusk, the former EU council chief, as Poland’s next prime minister on the pretext that he was a “risk to national security”. Such an attempt to defy the parliamentary majority that backs Tusk would plunge Poland into an uncharted constitutional crisis.
Attempts by the defeated nationalist government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to delay the transition of power to a new majority coalition led by Donald Tusk took a dangerous turn this week when a partisan government-controlled committee declared the former prime minister and EU council head unfit to take public office.
A rushed slanderous recommendation
The committee’s slanderous “recommendation”, which was rushed just minutes before its members were dismissed by the newly elected parliament, carries no legal weight, but given the obvious reluctance of the ruling camp to accept defeat and surrender power since the 15 October elections, it led to speculation Duda could use it as a pretext not to swear Tusk in.
But even if this would be the preferred course for Morawiecki and his political master, Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński, the normally pliant president appears unwilling to play such a dangerous and clearly unconstitutional game.
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