Change of power took place
Tusk’s swearing-in ends stalemate in Poland
December 13, 2023, 10:03 a.m
Almost two months after the parliamentary elections, Poland has a new head of government. After exhausting all options to delay the transfer of power, President Duda must swear in election winner Tusk as prime minister.
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has sworn in the new head of government Donald Tusk. Both politicians signed a certificate of appointment for Tusk’s cabinet in the Warsaw Presidential Palace. Almost two months after the parliamentary elections, the change of power has been completed.
On Tuesday evening, MPs expressed their confidence in Tusk’s government. The three-way alliance made up of Tusk’s liberal-conservative Citizens’ Coalition, the Christian-conservative Third Way and the left-wing alliance Lewica won a governing majority in the parliamentary elections on October 15th. However, the previous national-conservative PiS government had long delayed the change of power with the help of Duda.
The president, who himself comes from the ranks of the PiS, initially commissioned the former prime minister and PiS politician Mateusz Morawiecki to form a government, even though the party did not have a majority in parliament. As expected, Morawiecki failed in the confidence vote on Monday. Only then was the path clear for Tusk.