Donald Tusk Elected President of European People’s Party
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The European People's Party on Wednesday elected former European Council President Donald Tusk as its leader, replacing Frenchman Joseph Daul, Politico reports.
Tusk was elected with 491 votes in favor and 37 against at the party's congress in the Croatian capital, meaning Tusk becomes the first Eastern European to take the helm of the biggest political force in the EU.
A few hours before the vote, Tusk gave an impassioned speech which targeted "autocrats," populists and, without naming him directly, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and those "putting up a fence and billboards with anti-migration propaganda."
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