Poland’s new president, Karol Nawrocki, unexpectedly joined a call of European leaders with Donald Trump on Wednesday instead of the country’s veteran prime minister in a sign of his emerging clout with the US administration.

U.S. President Donald Trump at the last minute requested MAGA-allied Polish President Karol Nawrocki join the Ukraine teleconference with European leaders on Wednesday, according to centrist Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk,

However, right-wing private broadcaster TV Republika, which supports Nawrocki and his backers in the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, reported that the president was taking part in the call with Trump at 1300 GMT and had been briefed by the foreign ministry.