WARSAW, May 10 (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a cabinet reshuffle on Friday and handed the post of interior minister to Tomasz Siemoniak, then coordinator of the special services.
This reshuffle was made necessary after the departure of four ministers from Donald Tusk’s pro-European Civic Coalition (KO) government, which is running in the European elections in June. The Prime Minister said that among his government’s priorities was improving the efficiency of public enterprises.
The other three appointments include Hanna Wroblewska, an art historian, as culture minister, Krzysztof Paszyk, from the Third Way coalition, as development minister, and Jakub Jaworowski who takes the reins of the assets ministry. of State.
Jakub Jaworowski, economist and former deputy minister in the previous Civic Coalition administration, will take charge of Public Enterprises, whose management has been criticized for its politicization under the eight years of government of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. , removed from power last year.
“We will continue to clean up state-owned enterprises, because there are still many things to clean up (…) Many tasks still await the new minister in this area. We want state-owned enterprises to apply a common and well-thought-out strategy to economy,” said Donald Tusk.
Polish President Andrzej Duda will officially appoint new cabinet members on Monday. (Reporting Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Pawel Florkiewicz; French version Dimitri Rhodes, editing by Kate Entringer)
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