On Monday, 6 November, a press conference was held at which president Andrzej Duda gave the name of the future Prime Minister. It will be Mateusz Morawiecki of Law and Justice, who holds this function to this day. Andrzej Duda decided to appoint the current prime minister, although everything indicates that he would not be able to build a government coalition. The Law and Justice Club will have 194 Members in its future term, while as many as 231 parliamentarians are needed to rule.
Why did Andrzej Duda choose Morawiecki?
President Andrzej Duda entrusts the mission of creating the government to Mateusz Morawiecki due to the fact that he is inactive faithful to the PiS camp and will most likely want to fight for power in it after 2025. Morawiecki gets a present. Despite the deficiency of coalition ability, the current prime minister will have time to clean up the filth before yet having to quit power. At the same time, Andrzej Duda buys himself an insurance policy. Photos on which he presents the appointment of head of government Donald Tusk will inactive be created, but already in a different context. The situation in which Duda would give the nomination to Tusk with the omission of Morawiecki would be absolutely unforgivable for the PiS voters, and the enemies of Duda in the party, who would not deficiency to draw it out, just as to this day they are pulling out pictures of Tusk which were taken with Putin in Smolensk immediately after the fall of the presidential plane.
President Duda is just drowning Prime Minister Morawiecki.
He was entrusted with a mission which he knew the Prime Minister would not accomplish.
Call it a cheek for #PiS It would be a caress.
The president is tearing up a place in the political jungle on the right.
— Michał Kołodziejczak (@Ekolodziejczak_) November 6, 2023
Unfortunately, that's why president Duda failed the civic maturity test. In order to save his career, the president is wasting valuable time, which the fresh government could devote, for example, to voting on the budget bill.
This is how a fresh government is chosen:
The nomination process of the Prime Minister in Poland complies with the principles laid down in the Basic Act and takes place in respective stages. In adopting the script in which president Andrzej Duda will proceed to the formation of the government on 13 November, this procedure will proceed as follows:
- Presidential nomination: The president has the power to appoint a Prime Minister, frequently choosing a organization leader who succeeded in the election. Alternatively, he can besides choose to represent a parliamentary coalition with a majority in the Sejm. This decision belongs to the sole competence of the president and is an expression of his independence. After the appointment, the Prime Minister has until 14 days (until 27 November) to present the composition of his cabinet and another 2 weeks (until 11 December) to present the government's action plan and to get a vote of assurance from the Sejm, which must be adopted by a majority.
- Election of Prime Minister by the Sejm: If in the first phase the Council of Ministers is not appointed, the Sejm has the right, within the next 14 days (until 25 December), to elect the Prime Minister with his cabinet, which besides requires a majority of votes. After this election, the president formally appoints the Council of Ministers and takes an oath from her.
- Next steps in the absence of a government: In the event that the cabinet is not approved, the president has another 2 weeks (until January 8, 2024) to appoint the Prime Minister and, at his request, the Council of Ministers. The Sejm must then give a vote of assurance to the fresh Council of Ministers, this time by a simple majority.
