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Polish PM Tusk seeks confidence vote over tapes scandal


    WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, said on Wednesday he would seek a confidence vote from parliament over a scandal over secret recordings of private conversations between senior officials that has caused Poland's worst political crisis in years.

    "I'm ending my statement with a motion to the parliament speaker to conduct the confidence vote as soon as possible," Tusk told MPs.

    Tusk's Civic Platform and its junior partner PSL's votes would be enough to secure a confidence vote for the ruling coalition. PSL confirmed it would support Tusk's cabinet.

    (Reporting by Pawel Sobeczak; Writing by Marcin Goclowski; Editing by John Stonestreet)