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Driving too fast: Donald Tusk has to surrender his driver's license.
Photo: ADAM WARZAWA / EPA
The Polish politician Donald Tusk has to surrender his driver's license for three months because of driving too fast.
The punishment was appropriate, he announced on Twitter on Saturday, "I accepted it without discussion." Tusk was President of the European Council between 2014 and 2019.
Today he leads Poland's largest opposition party, the liberal-conservative citizens' platform.
The PAP news agency reported, citing the police, that the officers stopped the 64-year-old on Saturday morning near the town of Mlawa north of Warsaw because he was driving at 107 kilometers per hour within a town.
50 kilometers per hour are allowed there.
Tusk was fined the equivalent of 107 euros, and the traffic authorities entered ten negative points in their register.
In the Polish system, the driver's license is permanently revoked at 24 meters.
Points received are deleted after one year and can be reduced through voluntary training.
mpz / dpa
