(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, JUN 11 - Poland's pro-EU government won a confidence vote in parliament Wednesday as it attempted to demonstrate it still had majority support, despite suffering a major blow in this month's presidential election. The vote, called by Prime Minister Donald Tusk after nationalist Karol Nawrocki won the presidency, had prompted some experts to predict early elections. "I am asking for a vote of confidence because I have conviction, faith and confidence that we have a mandate to govern," Tusk said earlier Wednesday at the start of the parliamentary session. The government faced "very hard, serious work in conditions that will not change for the better", he added. The government needed a simple majority and after several hours of parliamentary debate, 243 MPs in the 460-seat parliament voted in favour of Tusk. But he faces an uphill struggle once Nawrocki, a fan of US President Donald Trump, is sworn in as expected in August. Analysts say Nawrocki will try to hamper the government and boost the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party that backed him. (ANSA-AFP).