Poland holds local elections in test for Tusk

WARSAW, Apr 7: Poles voted in local elections on Sunday, selecting councillors and mayors who will play a key role in allocating billions in European Union funds and providing an early indication of their satisfaction with the government of Donald Tusk.
Tusks appointment as prime minister in December marked a turning point for the largest country in the EUs east, drawing a line under eight years of nationalist rule that set Warsaw at odds with Western allies and putting the nation of 38 million people on a resolutely pro-European course.
The broad coalition which Tusk leads won a majority in Octobers parliamentary elections on promises to roll back judicial reforms implemented by the previous government that critics said undermined the independence of the courts, while boosting the rights of women and minorities.    —REUTERS