2023-11-06 19:35:36
A good three weeks following the victory of a three-party opposition alliance in the parliamentary elections in Poland, President Andrzej Duda made a controversial decision to further delay the transfer of power. The head of state today gave the previous Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki from the national conservative PiS the order to form a government.
Duda said in Warsaw that he followed the good parliamentary tradition, according to which a representative of the strongest faction is given the task of forming a government.
This move by the president, who himself comes from the PiS camp, might bring further weeks of political instability to Poland. Duda had previously set the date for the constituent session of the new parliament on November 13th – almost a month following the election.
Morawiecki lacks coalition partners
In the parliamentary election on October 15th, Donald Tusk’s liberal-conservative Citizens’ Coalition (KO) won a clear majority of seats together with two other opposition parties, the conservative Third Way and the left-wing alliance Lewica. The three parties are already working on a coalition agreement.
The previous ruling party PiS, on the other hand, became the strongest political force, but missed an absolute majority and does not have a coalition partner. This means that Morawiecki’s attempt to form a government is most likely doomed to failure.
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