Polish PM Tusk wins confidence vote amid criticism

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has survived a vote of confidence in the lower house of the country's parliament, called at his request following the victory of a right-wing candidate in the country's recent presidential election.

Tusk was backed by 243 members of parliament, with 210 voting against him, and no abstentions.

At the start of the month, Tusk's ally Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, lost out to conservative Karol Nawrocki in the presidential runoff.