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Free Malaysia Today
7 days ago
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
Poland's Tusk unveils new cabinet in bid to reverse decline
Donald Tusk's coalition has steadily declined in opinion polls since mid-2024. (AP pic) WARSAW : Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a cabinet reshuffle today in a bid to regain momentum amid falling approval ratings and potential clashes with the new, opposition-backed nationalist president. Since Karol Nawrocki's victory over Tusk's liberal ally Rafal Trzaskowski in June's presidential election, dissension within the ruling pro-European coalition has grown, raising doubt about its future under a veto-wielding head of state. Under the reshuffle, foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski was promoted to deputy prime minister while keeping his current post. 'We as a government need a very strong political figure in international relations,' Tusk told reporters. To consolidate oversight of economic affairs, Tusk announced a new super ministry combining finance and the economy to be headed by current finance minister Andrzej Domanski. 'The most important structural undertaking is building a viable financial and economic centre. There will be a single centre operating transparently and implementing a comprehensive economic policy,' Tusk said. Milosz Motyka from junior coalition party PSL will head a newly created energy ministry. A judge, Waldemar Zurek, was named to run the justice ministry as it seeks to shore up rule of law standards that critics say deteriorated under the previous nationalist government. Tusk's coalition has steadily declined in opinion polls since mid-2024. This month, the share of government opponents has risen to 48% while the government's support has held steady at 32%, the latest CBOS poll showed. Polls have traced the government's drop in popularity to public disenchantment with a lack of concrete achievements, with the opposition landing effective blows over a failure to stem undocumented migration into Poland. The reshuffle drew criticism from the main opposition Law and Justice party, which lost power in the 2023 election. 'Reconstruction means nothing other than the further destruction of Poland. Some incompetents were replaced by others,' the party's vice president, Mariusz Blaszczak, said in a post on X. Nawrocki, who will be sworn in as president on Aug 6, has questioned the coalition's pro-European, liberal agenda but said he is willing to accept moves to increase the tax-free pay threshold and deregulate parts of the economy. 'All laws that will be good for Poles will meet with my approval,' Nawrocki said in the televised interview on Monday. Tusk, in his remarks announcing the reshuffle, called on supporters not to despair after Nawrocki's presidential victory. 'No defeat, including the presidential election, justifies this mood or despair, this slackness, these thoughts of surrender… The time of post-election trauma definitely ends today,' the former European Council president said.
The Independent
18-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Watch: Mike Johnson claims Trump's approval rating is at 90%
This is the moment Mike Johnson claimed Donald Trump 's approval ratings are 'skyrocketing'. The House Speaker made the remarks during an interview with CNBC on Friday (July18). Johnson declared that while Trump is 'the most attacked political figure in the history of American politics,' he is also the most 'resilient'. 'And you see at the same time, his approval ratings are skyrocketing,' the Speaker continued. 'CNN had a story, I think a day or two ago, he was at a 90% approval rating. There's never been a president that high.' Trump's current approval rating stands at 44%, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday (14 July).
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Polls for Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill' Are ‘Terrible, Terrible, Terrible'
CNN has broken down a slew of new polls on how the American people view President Donald Trump's federal spending proposals and it's not looking good for the White House. 'If we're talking about adjectives, how about they think it's 'awful', 'horrible' and, to quote our colleague Charles Barkley, 'terrible, terrible, terrible',' network data guru Harry Enten said Monday. He then pulled up a screen showing the results of surveys on Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' from the Washington Post, Pew Research Centre, Fox News, Quinnipiac University and the Kaiser Family Foundation, showing disastrous net approval ratings of -19, -20, -21, -26, and -29 percent respectively. 'You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that when the net favourable rating of your bill is somewhere between -19 and -29 points, that is not a positive bill as viewed by the American public,' Enten said. Putting a finer point on it, the numbers wizard added: 'The American public, at this particular point, hates, hates, HATES the 'Big Beautiful Bill'.' Host Omar Jimenez quipped that he 'always appreciates it when you hold back, Harry,' to which the data guru responded: 'I know, I try.' Enten went on to explain Trump's dismal approval ratings on spending hadn't emerged overnight either, with Quinnipiac University's disastrous numbers holding at exactly the same level since the start of June. 'It's the same, minus 26 points! The more they learn about this bill, they hate it just as much!' he said, adding that after extensive research, the 'bottom line' is that he hasn't been able to find records of any piece of U.S. legislation the American people appeared to despise quite as much. 'This one is in the history books, and for all of the wrong reasons,' Enten said.
