Poland: New parliament meets for the first time
Poland: New parliament meets for the first time
Newly-elected lawmakers of both houses of parliament are convening, but the country will likely be without a government for weeks as a conservative majority seeks to hang onto power.
...and thus begins PiS's no-hope bid for a third term.
Conservatives love denying reality, no matter what flag they fly
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Morawiecki will likely remain in a caretaker role for as long as four weeks, since Duda denied the winning three-party opposition alliance — the clear winner of the October vote — the chance to form a government.
DW's Monika Sieradzka in Warsaw said the president appeared to be playing for time with the move, allowing conservatives to attempt to convince the public they are building a government, when in fact they have no chance of doing so.
The PiS did win the largest single-party share of the vote in October, taking 194 of the 460 seats in the lower house, or Sejm.
A coalition of pro-European parties led by Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister (2007-2014) and European Council president (2014-2019), won a 248-seat majority in the October vote.
Although the three coalition parties range from the left to right of the political spectrum and campaigned separately, they are united in their opposition to the ultra-conservative PiS, as well as their pro-EU positions.
Having signed an agreement stating that they are ready to govern, alliance members promise to restore democratic norms eroded by eight years of PiS rule.
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