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Poland puts forward rival candidate to EU’s Tusk

WARSAW, March 4 (APP/AFP): Foreign Minister Witold
Waszczykowski said Poland had put forward a Euro-MP as its candidate
for the EU presidency to succeed Donald Tusk, whose second term is opposed by the governing rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS).
“I have just sent a diplomatic note to propose the candidacy of Jacek
Saryusz-Wolski for the presidency of the European Council,” the PAP news agency quoted Waszczykowski as saying, referring to a Polish member of the European Parliament.