Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said Poland had put forward a Euro-MP as its candidate for the EU presidency to succeed Donald Tusk, whose second term is opposed by the governing rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS).

"I have just sent a diplomatic note to propose the candidacy of Jacek Saryusz-Wolski for the presidency of the European Council," the PAP news agency quoted Waszczykowski as saying, referring to a Polish member of the European Parliament.