Leaders of Law and Justice (PiS), Agreement, and United Poland - Jarosław Kaczyński, Jarosław Gowin and Zbigniew Ziobro respectively - on Thursday signed a new agreement as the United Right coalition - chief of PiS Executive Committee Krzysztof Sobolewski has informed.
Leaders of parties forming the United Right coalition met on Thursday in PiS headquarters in Warsaw. Soboloweski informed after the talks that they had been conluded with signing of the new coalition agreement.
Asked about the document itself Sobolewski said "the agreement has an internal character". "We won't be informing about the deal's contents," he added.
"The coalition agreement has been signed. I'd like to thank PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński and the Minister of Justice, United Poland leader Zbigniew Ziobro. We promise four years of hard, honest work for Poland," the leader of the Agreement party Jarosław Gowin said on Thursday.
The new United Right's coalition agreement had been negotiated for quite a long time, and the need to signing it was necessary as the previous one had expired on November 11, along with the end of the previous term of the parliament.
Law and Justice won the parliamentary elections of October 13, with 43.59 percent of votes. Civic Coalition came second with 27.40 percent, the Left won 12.56 percent, Polish People's Party - 8,55, and Confederation - 6.81.
The United Right coalition, that is Law and Justice, Agreement, and United Poland, have managed to win 235 seats in the Sejm (lower house) and 48 in the Senate (upper house). Jarosław Gowin's Agreement and Zbigniew Ziobro's United Right have won 18 seats in the Sejm and 2 in the Senate each.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP