On Friday, November 10, leaders Donald Tusk, Szymon Hołownia, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish, Włodzimierz Czarzaty and Robert Biedron signed a coalition agreement that had been negotiated for the past weeks. We print the content of this paper below. We, the undersigned representatives:
1) Coalition Election Committee PO.N IPL Greens (hereinafter "Citizen Coalition"), represented by Donald Tusk, 2) Coalition Election Committee 3rd Road Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia – Polish People's Party, represented by Szymon Holovnia ("Third Road – Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia") and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz ("Third Road – PSL"), 3) Election Committee fresh Left (New Left), represented by Włodzimierz Czarzast and Robert Biedron – together we declare the creation of a coalition to build a permanent parliamentary majority, a common government and repair of the Republic, hereinafter referred to as "the Coalition". We are committed to working together to improve the standard of surviving and the safety of citizens of our country as a modern nation at the heart of Europe, friendly to neighbours who share our values, respecting the traditions and values of our culture and history.
We would like to thank all voters who, on October 15, 2023, in an unprecedented number, have become at the urns. This wonderful celebration of Polish democracy would not be possible if it were not for the large activity of civilian society in fresh years, which the sides of the Coalition consider a large commitment. We will work in accordance with the provisions of this coalition agreement, with the awareness of work for the future of Poland. In the programme matters not covered by this Agreement, the Coalition parties agree that, in the interests of Poland, they will have a friendly dialog to make common positions and draft legal acts. This dialog will be conducted between the parties forming the Coalition, but besides with a broad focus on the social voice.
Coalition agreement signed 😍
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— Marcin Józefaciuk (@M_Jozefaciuk) November 10, 2023
Part I. Programme arrangements
By following the will of the voters, we will act together and in accordance with the following areas:
1. The safety of Poles and Poles is simply a precedence task for the Coalition Parties. In the face of an unprecedented threat to our safety caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine, we will strengthen Poland's global position. We will consistently stand defender against Polish interests, leading a clear and calculated abroad policy, readable to friends and dissuasive to enemies of our country. Polish safety will be based on 3 pillars: reconstruction of the national community, strengthening of the position in the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance and reinforced army – well commanded and equipped with modern equipment. Polish diplomacy requires professionalization and depoliticisation. In the interests of the safety of citizens and citizens, we will besides search to rebuild civilian protection.
2. We will reconstruct the legal order that has been disrupted by the actions of the predecessors.
The courts will be free from political pressure, the prosecution will be independent and apolitical. We will guarantee the legality of the functioning of the judiciary and constitutional judiciary. We will do our best to reconstruct the constitutional and apolitical form of the National Judicial Council and the ultimate Court. Courts must be close to citizens and service them. We'll cut time and reduce the costs of court proceedings. It is besides essential to relieve the courts of cases that can be settled in an administrative manner.
3. 1 of the most crucial tasks of the Coalition will be to support the key professions for the functioning of the state and the future of our children.
The Coalition parties confirm the urgent request for increases for teachers, public servants, including administration, courts and prosecutors. Low earnings push people to guarantee the continuity of our country and the education of children and young people. We will halt and reverse this process. applicable government providing increases will be submitted during the first 100 days of government.
4. The coalition wants a decisive improvement in the quality and availability of the wellness system.
We're going to rise our wellness spending. We'll lift the NFZ's treatment limits. We're going to put in place mechanisms for the extension of hospitals, and we're going to re-evaluate wellness services. We will supply common and accessible intellectual and psychiatric assistance financed by the state. We'll increase the function of Basic wellness Care facilities. We will extend the powers of another medical and non-medical professions to improve the functioning of the system. We will make all effort to shorten the queues to professionals.
5. Good education is an investment in the future of our children, but besides a real profit in the form of higher GDP, due to the fact that all dollar allocated to education comes back with respect.
We will increase budget spending on education effectively. We will guarantee that children are fed healthyly in schools. We will "we will lose weight" and change the programming basis, so that schools teach competences of the future related to the improvement of fresh technologies, the ability of synthetic reasoning and cooperation in the group, and children from simple school usage English fluently. We will reduce the responsibilities associated with homework, so that after-school time is meant only for the household and make their passions. intellectual care will be available in all school. We will bring politics out of schools, increase their autonomy, while remembering that they should convey the values of modern patriotism, openness and human rights and the wealth of Polish culture. We will reconstruct the impartiality and authority of another organs of the state changed in fresh years to organization housing. We will rebuild civilian service and improvement the legislative process by beginning it to a broad public consultation.
The coalition agreement was signed by leaders of the civilian Coalition, 3rd Way and Left. pic.twitter.com/XD8eJNrXXv
— Citizen Platform (@Platforma_org) November 10, 2023
6. We will strengthen the rights of women, which will be a key area of the Coalition.
We will overturn the 2020 Constitutional Court ruling. Women have the right to decide for themselves. The State will supply circumstantial support to couples planning parenthood by financing the in vitro procedure and full access to free prenatal studies. We will guarantee the implementation of modern standards of perinatal care. Access to free anaesthesia will be a rule, not an exception. peculiar emphasis will be placed on the improvement of a network of nurseries. At the same time, the Coalition parties agree that, in order to build social capital and equalize women's position on the labour market, it is essential to supply additional support for women to return to work after maternity leave. The Coalition Parties will work together to address the wage gap and to destruct another barriers to equal treatment in the labour market. The coalition will search effective execution of alimony.
7. We are all equal, and sexual orientation and sex cannot be the origin of discrimination.
Fighting speech and hatred actions will be our priority. We will amend the Criminal Code so that hatred speech on grounds of sexual orientation and sex is prosecuted ex officio.
8. The accelerating climate crisis is an undeniable fact, as is the fact that human action is the main origin of it.
We will work together to combat climate change and reduce their impact on the lives of Polish people. In particular, the Parties to the Coalition are determined to accelerate the green energy transition. We will make a unchangeable law to support fair energy transformation by building financial and technological support systems. Without clean and inexpensive energy, Poland is threatened with competitive collapse against another countries, which will negatively affect the quality of life and income of Poles.
9. The Coalition Parties will take joint action to increase the share of renewable energy sources in electricity production.
This will be possible, among others, by releasing the possible of land wind power, photovoltaics, biogas plants, the improvement of competition and the engagement of the private and self-government sector. At the same time, we will make assumptions for a coherent atomic energy improvement programme and will specify how it will be financed. Our aim is besides to modernise and grow transmission and distribution networks. In order to supply backing for these projects, we will unlock funds from the National Recovery Plan and allocate all the proceeds from the ETS emissions trading strategy to investments in energy transformation. We will supply low energy prices to households and businesses based on healthy competition mechanisms and clear marketplace principles. 1 of the foundations of the marketplace will be prosumer energy, giving millions of citizens the chance to participate in the energy generation process. We confirm the willingness to dialog and respect the arrangements concluded with the social side. We will guarantee a fair transition taking account of the safety of energy workers. The fight against energy poorness will be an crucial component of transformation.
10. The Coalition will take decisive steps to improve the level of protection of Polish forests, rivers and air.
The environment is our legacy, which we must pass on to the next generation. 20% of the most valuable forest areas will be excluded from the cutting, exports of unprocessed wood will be limited and wood will primarily service Polish entrepreneurs. We will introduce a ban on the burning of wood in industrial energy. We will establish social supervision of forests and implement a programme for restoration of swamps and bogs. In consultation with local communities, we will increase the area of national parks. We will implement constant monitoring of the purity of rivers and will strive to renature them. We'll destruct illegal toxic waste dumps. We will fight against smog by speeding up the process of exchanging heat sources and thermomodernisation. We will make the essential changes to Clean Air.
There's a Coalition Agreement!
Yeah, I besides want that this deal was signed by the leaders, not by the men themselves.
Of course, there are no abortions, no partnerships, no religion from schools and no another specifics.
And yet, erstwhile I read this document, I can see how crucial it is... pic.twitter.com/9nt2fZxKdq
— Claudia Jachira (@JachiraKlaudia) November 10, 2023
11. The Coalition intends to reconstruct predictability in the taxation strategy as shortly as possible by stabilising the law and restoring dialog with organisations representing employers and trade unions.
The Coalition Parties agree that a stable, friendly and fair taxation strategy is simply a essential condition for expanding the rate of investment in the economy. To this end, the Coalition Parties will in peculiar introduce a six-month minimum vacatio legis for changes in taxation law. The Parties to the Coalition agree to reduce the taxation burden imposed on those working in order to stimulate work activity and support families. Seeing the request to support 16 million workers, we will fund the State Labour Inspection to effectively defend their rights.
12. We will take action to reconstruct transparency of state finances and guarantee democratic control over them.
The Coalition will search to improve public finances. The first step will be to print the White Paper of State Finance. We will conduct a review of the institutions established by our predecessors, including their usefulness and operating costs.
13. We will reconstruct favourable conditions to the improvement of business.
The last years were marked by the war declared by the ruling Polish entrepreneurs. Without restoring the spirit of entrepreneurship, a return to long-term economical growth, resulting in higher wages, will not be possible. We will reconstruct trust between you and entrepreneurs. We will decision distant from the oppressive tax-contributory system, among others, by introducing favourable and clear rules on the calculation of wellness contributions. A massive increase in business costs in fresh years must be stopped, so the Coalition parties will introduce the rule that the sick individual will be paid by ZUS from the first day. We will supply a cash settlement method for PIT by entrepreneurs. We will introduce the anticipation of temporary exemption from social safety contributions for entrepreneurs who pay contributions for themselves.
14. 1 of the priorities of the Coalition will be to depoliticise State Treasury companies by introducing clear criteria for recruitment for management positions.
The biggest Polish companies must work with the best specialists and managers, not people chosen from organization or household keys. The Coalition Parties will work together to implement the highest corporate governance standards in companies controlled by the Treasury.
15. The Coalition will cooperate to safeguard the interests of Polish farmers.
Russia's aggression into Ukraine has led to negative phenomena on agricultural markets. Uncontrolled inflow of products to our marketplace caused multimillion losses of Polish producers. This is why we will take action for Polish farmers, among others, by building fresh logistics infrastructure – specified as grain port and fresh warehouse space. We will support Polish production, for example by introducing an work to flag products, and actively defender the interests of this key sector internationally. The coalition advocates the improvement of Polish agriculture and the agri-food sector as crucial for food safety and as an crucial social, economical and environmental function. We will strive to stabilise the situation on agricultural markets, increase the cost-effectiveness of production by developing export possible and standardising relations with 3rd countries and simplifying administrative procedures. It is crucial to keep a balance in the appropriate improvement of plant production and straight related animal production. The Coalition Parties will work to improve animal welfare. We will support the usage of the possible of agriculture and agrarian areas to produce clean and inexpensive energy. We will introduce a maximum 30-day payment date by markets and purchasing companies for food producers and guarantee its enforcement. We will make a stabilisation fund to reduce losses resulting from unfair practices of intermediaries.
16. discipline and higher education require changes that ensure, among others, depoliticisation, restoration of university autonomy and higher levels of funding.
Hey, guys, sign where the dots are.
Black, Biedron: cool, cool
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— Renaissance kind 🇵🇱 🌍🇪🇺 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 (@varsovie_style) November 10, 2023
We'll change the scoring strategy for technological publications. The Coalition's parties agree that in order to improve the competitiveness of the Polish economy, it will be essential to increase investments in investigation and improvement and to make efficient channels for the exchange of cognition between academics and entrepreneurs. The state will be peculiarly afraid about investigation into historical and cultural heritage.
17. Culture is, according to the Coalition, the key area of the State.
The Coalition's predecessors have led to an utmost politicization of cultural assessment and backing institutions, which frequently meant the introduction of hidden censorship. Art must be free! The coalition will search to depoliticise culture and to standardise the professional position of artists by providing them with social security, pensions and access to the healthcare system.
18. We will fix and depoliticize public media.
They have become divided up in society, spreading lies, and deliberately organized hatred hunts and campaigns, leading to the break-up of the national community. We undertake to take all the essential steps to halt this immediately and to draw the consequences of public money hatred.
9. The Coalition Parties confirm that it is essential to separate the Church from the State, based on the principles of common independency and the impartiality of the State in matters of spiritual belief and belief.
20. The coalition will depoliticize uniform and peculiar services and introduce clear rules of state control over them.
Subordination of the Police and peculiar Services of the ruling option over the past 8 years has led to their utmost politicisation, multiple usage for political combat and restrictions on civilian rights. The Coalition will reduce the number of services with statutory powers to execute operational and investigative activities and will introduce an effective mechanics for monitoring the performance of those activities by the services. The Central Anti-corruption Office will be liquidated and its resources and competences transferred to another services, including the police Central Investigation Office to combat corruption crimes. This will strengthen the fight against corruption, completely abandoned by the erstwhile power. Citizens will have the right to information about their interest on the part of the services, in peculiar on their operational control.
21. Social benefits must be complemented, especially in the area of systemic support for families, people with disabilities, carers of dependents and seniors.
The coalition sees the request for comprehensive social policy solutions. We will simplify the strategy of jurisprudence, pass the Act of Assistance for Independents. The State should guarantee decent surviving conditions for pensioners and pensioners. We will introduce solutions that increase the social activity of the aged and warrant decent conditions for seniors after the death of their spouse. We will introduce solutions to reconstruct the acquired rights of pensioners who collect benefits on the basis of provisions on pension provision for officers.
22. We'll increase the availability of housing.
This is 1 of the main challenges facing our country. The irresponsible and inept policy of both government and NBP has made it impossible for millions of young Poles to meet housing needs. The Coalition Parties will make conditions for a crucial acceleration of the rate of giving up fresh housing: ownership, available for rent besides by local governments and social and municipal housing. The State will besides support local governments in the renovation of vacant housing.
23. Ensuring efficient and accessible public transport will be 1 of the precedence areas of our cooperation.
The coalition will actively support the process of restoring bus connections and developing a railway network to halt and reverse negative trends in this area. The budget resources and EU funds that will be launched by the Coalition will improve the quality of collective communication. We will make an integrated strategy allowing you to buy a ticket to travel with any means of collective transport.
24. The Coalition Parties agree to support the decentralisation of the state.
We believe that entrusting local authorities with appropriate competences, together with providing them with adequate financial resources, ensures that they manage as closely as possible to people. We will so search to reconstruct broad autonomy to local governments. We will strengthen their own income, including by expanding their participation in the PIT taxation and re-granting them decision-making in those areas where they have lost it in fresh years. We will unlock funds from the KPO, which will yet let the local governments to freely plan key investments. We will end the policy of "tekture checks" that our predecessors have made. We will put an end to the practice of abuse of supervisory instruments towards self-government.
25. The Parties to the Coalition recognise the large possible and engagement of NGOs in social processes.
Third Sector Organisations cannot be overlooked and marginalised, and the distribution of public funds cannot take place by organization key, as has been the case so far. We will make a strategy of equitable distribution of public funds, in which the only criterion will be the substantive values of the projects proposed by NGOs and not the views of their members. NGOs will be a partner in the consultation process erstwhile creating law. The Coalition will remember abroad countrymen who have expressed their patriotism so numerously in fresh elections. We will improvement the election law so that no 1 else has to fear that his vote will be counted.
Part II. Settlement of the Governments of the United Right
The lawlessness which we have all witnessed during the regulation of our predecessors must be named and settled. Without settlement of pathologies and crimes of erstwhile power there is no and there will be no just and law-abiding Poland. The constitutional rule that any action by the public authorities must be within the limits of the law and based on it will be the foundation of both the settlement process and the activities of the coalition government.
The coalition agreement is the consequence of many months of cooperation with the non-governmental sector.
Something ends and something begins
Therefore, thank you very much for your cooperation with all naturalists (you know), the wood manufacture and many foresters.
It's been an honor for me.
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— Magdalena Filiks 🇵🇱🇪🇺 (@FilixMagdalena) November 10, 2023
First of all:
– we will bring to constitutional work those liable for attempting to change the state's strategy illegally, for violating the Constitution and laws and for violating the regulation of law, for stubborn public institutions, for misappropriation of public funds and for their unlawful, unprofitable and unprofitable spending;
– in areas requiring detailed and transparent examination, we shall set up appropriate parliamentary committees of inquiry;
– we will lead to settlement by independent prosecutors and independent courts of all guilty persons: (a) the excess of powers and the failure of officials and another public officers to fulfil their duties, as well as the inducement of specified action; (b) the misappropriation of public funds for organization and individual purposes; (c) nepotism in public institutions and companies of the Treasury and political corruption, including the vocation of influences; (d) the organized strategy of sowing hatred in government media and another means of mass communication directed against citizens, opposition activists and NGOs; (e) the usage of public funds and public institutions specified as the media and companies of the Treasury to influence public election decisions; (f) the falsification of papers and falsification of officials.
Part III. Principles of the Coalition
1. The Parties to the Agreement shall declare cooperation and joint action on the implementation of this Agreement. All decisions under the Coalition will be made by consensus, and parliamentary clubs representing the parties to the agreement will have a voting discipline over the submitted draft laws and resolutions prepared by the Coalition Government of Poland and agreed by parliamentary clubs projects initiated by a group of MPs.
2. The Coalition candidate for the Prime Minister of the Polish Government is Mr Donald Tusk.
3. The candidate of the Coalition for the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Polish Government is Mr. Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Mr. Krzysztof Gawkowski is the candidate for Deputy Prime Minister of the Polish Government.
4. The candidates for the Coalition for the Marshal of the Polish Sejm are: (a) Mr Simon Holownia from 13 November 2023 to 13 November 2025 (b) Mr Vladimir Czarzasty from 14 November 2025 until the end of his word of office.
5. The coalition will study to the Bureau of the Polish Parliament: (a) designated by the civilian Coalition of 2 Deputy Marshals of the Polish Sejm (for the full 10th word of the Polish Sejm), (b) designated by the 3rd Road – PSL of 1 Deputy Marshal of the Polish Sejm (for the full 10th word of the Polish Sejm), (c) designated by the fresh Left of 1 Deputy Marshal of the Polish Sejm (for the period from 13 November 2023 to 13 November 2025), (d) designated by the 3rd Road – Poland 2050 Szymon Holownia of 1 Deputy Marshal of the Polish Sejm (for the period from 14 November 2025 until the end of the word of the Polish Sejm).
6. The candidate of the Coalition for the Marshal of the legislature of Poland from 13 November 2023 to 13 November 2025 is Ms Margaret Kidawa-Błońska. The candidate for the Polish legislature Marshal for the period from 14 November 2025 until the end of his word of office will be indicated by the Civic Coalition.
7. The coalition will study to the Bureau of the legislature of the Republic of Poland (for the full 11th word of the legislature of the Republic of Poland): (a) designated by the civilian Coalition of 1 Vice-Marshal of the legislature of the Republic of Poland, (b) designated by the 3rd Road – Poland 2050 Szymon Holownia of 1 Vice-Marshal of the legislature of the Republic of Poland, (c) designated by the 3rd Road – PSL of 1 Vice-Marshal of the legislature of the Republic of Poland, (d) designated by the fresh Left of 1 Vice-Marshal of the legislature of the Republic of Poland.
8. Changing the content of the coalition agreement requires written form and acceptance of all parties to the agreement. 9. The Agreement shall enter into force upon signature.
Warsaw, November 10, 2023.
