President Andrzej Duda has tasked Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki with a mission to form a new government. Morawiecki has now 14 days to form a new cabinet, while the president has to approve it within that same fortnight. The prime minister will then have another two weeks to present his new cabinet to the Sejm and ask for a vote of confidence. However, if anyone still doubts whether or not the opposition has the necessary majority to win votes in the lower house, Monday's inaugural session of the new parliament provided a rather clear answer.
The inaugural sessions of the lower and the upper house of the Polish parliament - the Sejm and the Senate - were held on Monday, November 13.
As tradition and the constitution dictate, during the first session of the new Sejm, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki dismissed his outgoing cabinet.
In the new parliament, the coalition formed between former democratic opposition parties is able to muster a majority of 248 MPs out of the total of 460. Despite the fact that Civic Coalition, Third Way, and New Left have expressed readiness to form a coalition cabinet, President Andrzej Duda has decided to entrust Mateusz Morawiecki with a mission to create the new government.
Morawiecki has now 14 days to form a new cabinet, while the president has to approve it within that same fortnight. The prime minister will then have another two weeks to present his new cabinet to the Sejm and ask for a vote of confidence
"I would like to invite everyone who will be building a parliamentary majority in this here chamber to support the very government I will be attempting to form," Morawiecki said during the inaugural session.
Neither the prime minister in his nearly 40-minute-long speech nor Jarosław Kaczyński have presented any viable plans on how and with whom to form a new majority coalition. In order to win the vote of confidence, Morawiecki needs at least 37 more MPs.
"The situation is dynamic, in spite of what some might think," PiS chief Jarosław Kaczyński said on Monday in the Sejm. He also once again accused Donald Tusk of being "Germany's man" whose goal is to make sure Poland not only loses its sovereignty, but statehood too.
PiS chairman's comments only confirm that the only plan PiS has prepared for the upcoming weeks is to continue the policy of accusations against Donald Tusk. It is in such atmosphere that Mateusz Morawiecki intends to seek parliamentary majority.
As of today, there is not a single MP outside the PiS party who would seem convinced by the prime minister's words. As a result, in the coming days, PM Morawiecki will be putting forward candidates for ministers in his cabinet - a cabinet that will not win necessary majority in the parliament.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Fakty TVN