The official resignation of the national conservative government of Poland / the slow process of forming a new government

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, quoted by the German “Hamburger Abend Blatt” newspaper, About four weeks after the victory of the three-party opposition coalition in the Polish parliamentary elections, the change of government in this country is of course proceeding slowly.

As expected, the current national conservative government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in The opening session of the new parliament resigned on Monday. Meanwhile, Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, still wants Morawiecki, his party member and not the previous opposition representative, to form the government, and this issue is again announced. But since Moravitzky does not get a majority in the parliament, his mission is likely to fail.

In the October 15 election, three opposition parties led by “Donald Tusk”, the former president of the European Council. They won an overwhelming majority in the Sejm, the lower house of the parliament. The liberal-conservative Citizens Alliance Tusk, along with the conservative Third Way Party and the left-wing coalition Loika, have 248 seats out of a total of 460 seats. The three parties have now signed a coalition agreement and announced their readiness to form a future coalition government.

The previous ruling national-conservative party PiS became the strongest force in parliament with 194 seats, but fell far short of an absolute majority. And it does not have a coalition partner.

The upcoming change of government in Warsaw is also likely to bring about a change in Poland’s foreign policy. Poland’s Law and Justice party has constantly clashed with Brussels over judicial reforms. Relations with Berlin were also at a low ebb due to World War Reparations claims of €1.3 trillion. But the three opposition parties in this country are in favor of a European path and a more conciliatory policy towards Germany.

Polish parliament representatives elected “Szymon Holonia” as the new speaker of the parliament in their first meeting. This 47-year-old journalist and TV host is one of the two leaders of the opposition’s Third Way electoral coalition. Referring to the previous practice of PiS, which ruled the country since 2015, Holonia said: From now on, the parliament will no longer act as a “service point for the government” and a “voting machine”.

However, President Duda appointed the resigned Prime Minister Morawiski to form the new government. Duda, himself from the ranks of PiS, justified his decision by saying that it is a parliamentary tradition in Poland that the representative of the strongest faction gets the job first. The opposition accuses him of trying to give PiS more weeks in power.

Under the constitution, Morawiecki has 14 days to put his cabinet to a vote in parliament. This plan will most likely result in a heavy defeat for him. Because, apart from PiS representatives, no other faction, not even the far-right Konfederacja, wants to vote for him.

Only when this attempt to form a government fails, it will be the turn of the parliament. The country could form a three-party coalition government from among its members, led by Donald Tusk.

However, Poland’s new government, made up of opposition parties, must come to terms with its reform plans with President Duda, who The second term of his presidency is still a year and a half long, get over it. In his speech in the parliament, Duda clearly stated that if he sees the country’s interests in danger, he will use his veto right in the future.

Donald Tusk has recently announced that this coalition is ready as soon as The official order to form the government, take over the government immediately. He told reporters: “We agreed on four years of good, hard work and solidarity.” Donald Tusk criticized the Polish president’s decision as an incomprehensible mistake. TVN24.pl news portal quoted the opposition leader as saying that the current government camp wants to steal a few more days, two or three more weeks with this decision. It was the European Union. In 2021, he returned to Polish politics.

Three opposition parties that want to join the forces led by former Prime Minister Donald Tusk want more cooperation with the European Union and a more conciliatory policy towards Germany.

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