Mourning for the Pope Disrupts Tusk's Plans. Budka Hints at Malice

President Andrzej Duda emphasized on Saturday that the future pope must be, above all, a man of great spirit. In the president's opinion, Pope Francis's pontificate was marked by "the issue of mercy", and care for people was his great value and characteristic feature. On Saturday, the funeral of Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88 after the article President Duda: the future pope must be, above all, a man of great spirit comes from…

Mourning for the Pope Disrupts Tusk's Plans. Budka Hints at Malice

A statement made on the public television station—illegally taken over by Donald Tusk's government—may go down in history as a prime example of political absurdity. Borys Budka, former leader of Civic Platform and now one of the key figures in Tusk’s party, suggested that President Andrzej Duda, by declaring a national day of mourning on the day of Pope Francis’s funeral, is maliciously sabotaging the government’s celebrations of the 1000th anni…