Donald Tusk

President of the European People's Party

Donald Franciszek Tusk 22 April 1957 Gdańsk, Poland

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President of the European People's Party Donald TuskTusk in 2017President of the European People's PartyIncumbentAssumed office 1 December 2019Preceded by Joseph DaulPresident of the European CouncilIn office 1 December 2014 – 30 November 2019Preceded by Herman Van RompuySucceeded by Charles MichelPrime Minister of PolandIn office 16 November 2007 – 22 September 2014PresidentLech KaczyńskiBronisław Komorowski (acting)Bogdan Borusewicz (acting)Grzegorz Schetyna (acting)Bronisław KomorowskiDeputyWaldemar PawlakGrzegorz SchetynaJanusz PiechocińskiJacek RostowskiElżbieta BieńkowskaPreceded by Jarosław KaczyńskiSucceeded by Ewa KopaczDeputy Marshal of the SejmIn office 19 October 2001 – 18 October 2005Serving with see listMarshalMarek BorowskiJózef OleksyWłodzimierz CimoszewiczDeputy Marshal of the SenateIn office 20 October 1997 – 18 October 2001Serving with see listMarshalAlicja GrześkowiakChair of the Civic Platform (PO)IncumbentAssumed office 3 July 2021Preceded by Borys BudkaIn office 1 June 2003 – 8 November 2014Preceded by Maciej PłażyńskiSucceeded by Ewa KopaczLeader of the Liberal Democratic Congress (KLD)In office 19 May 1991 – 23 April 1994Preceded by Janusz LewandowskiSucceeded by Party dissolvedTadeusz Mazowiecki (as leader of the Freedom Union) Personal detailsBornDonald Franciszek Tusk (1957-04-22 ) 22 April 1957 (age 64) Gdańsk, PolandPolitical partyLiberal Democratic Congress (before 1994)Freedom Union (1994–2001)Civic Platform (2001–present)Other political affiliationsEuropean People's PartySpouse(s)Małgorzata Sochacka ​(m. 1978)​Children2EducationUniversity of GdańskAwards Order of the Sun of Peru Royal Norwegian Order of Merit Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise SignatureWebsiteOfficial website Donald Franciszek Tusk (/t ʊ s k / TUUSK , Polish:  ( listen ) ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and leader of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) political party from 2003 to 2014. On 20 November 2019, Tusk was elected as the president of the European People's Party (EPP), Europe's largest transnational political party and on 3 July 2021 he returned to Polish politics by reassuming the leadership of the Civic Platform. Tusk has been involved in Polish politics since the early 1990s, having founded several political parties and held elected office almost continuously since 1991. Tusk was one of the co-founders of the free-market-orientated Liberal Democratic Congress party. He entered the Sejm (lower chamber of Poland's parliament) in 1991, but lost his seat in the 1993 election which went badly for the Congress. In 1994, the Congress merged with the Democratic Union to form the Freedom Union. In 1997, Tusk was elected to the Senate, and became its deputy speaker. In 2001, he co-founded another centre-right liberal conservative party, Civic Platform (PO), and he was again elected to the Sejm, and became its deputy speaker. He was elected prime minister in 2007 and with his party's victory in the 2011 Polish parliamentary election, he became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected since the fall of communism in Poland. In 2014, he became president of the European Council and was re-elected to this position in 2017. He resigned as Polish prime minister to take the role, having been the longest-serving Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic and the third longest-serving Prime Minister of Poland after Józef Cyrankiewicz and Piotr Jaroszewicz.