Poland’s President Andrzej Duda will veto the new government’s spending plan, which includes a 30% pay increase for teachers, in protest against the shakeup of public broadcasters.
The decision, announced by the president on social platform X on Saturday, marks an escalation of tensions between the new administration of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Duda, an ally of former ruling nationalists, which lost power in the Oct. 15 parliamentary election.