WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that Poland’s parliament will hold a confidence vote on his government on June 11, as the country faces a “new political reality.” He called for the vote after his political ally, the liberal Warsaw mayor, lost Poland’s weekend presidential election to conservative Karol Nawrocki.

Polish lawmakers will hold a vote of confidence in the government on June 11, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday as he seeks to shore up his centre-left coalition after Sunday's presidential election loss.

Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the run-off election to become Poland’s next president. His entry into office will heighten the country’s political crisis.

A vote seen as a test of the power of populist nationalism in Europe was too close to call, with exit polls putting the two contenders neck and neck.

T HE PRESIDENTIAL election in Poland on June 1st was a distillation of the political choice facing all of Europe these days. Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, was backed by the centrist,