2023-12-13 11:13 update: 2023-12-14, 14:32
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Andrzej Duda, the Polish president has sworn-in the new Donald Tusk government.
Duda swore-in Tusk as prime minister and his ministerial nominees new ministers in the Presidential Palace on Wednesday morning. They come from a coalition of the three to-date opposition groupings, the centrist Civic Coalition, the centre-right Third Way and the New Left.
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the leader of the agrarian Polish People's Party, a part of the Third Way, was appointed a deputy prime minister and the defence minister. Krzysztof Gawkowski will also become a deputy prime minister and the digitisation minister.
Radoslaw Sikorski, a former foreign minister in Tusk's previous government, will again head the foreign ministry.
Adam Bodnar, former ombudsperson, will now lead the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's office.
Andrzej Domanski will become the head of the Ministry of Finance.
Borys Budka will be the Minister of State Assets, while Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz was sworn-in as the culture minister.
Adam Szlapka will take over as the minister for European Affairs, and Barbara Nowacka as the education minister.
Duda appointed Marcin Kierwinski as the Minister of Interior and Administration and Krzysztof Hetman for the Minister of Economic Development and Technology.
Dariusz Klimczak has become the infrastructure minister, and Paulina Hennig-Kloska as the climate minister.
Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz took over as the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, and Agnieszka Buczynska as the civic society minister.
Dariusz Wieczorek will become the science minister, and Czeslaw Siekierski the agriculture minister. Izabela Leszczyna will take the helm at the Ministry of Health.
Slawomir Nitras will head the Ministry of Sport and Tourism, and Marzena Okla-Drewnowicz the Ministry of Senior Policy.
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bak was appointed as the family minister, and Katarzyna Kotula the equality minister.
Tusk has created the Ministry of Industry, with Marzena Czarnecka as its head. Its headquarters will be in the southern city Katowice, located in the Polish coal-mining region of Silesia.
Jan Grabiec, Tomasz Siemoniak and Maciej Berek were sworn-in as the members of the Council of Ministers.
Despite winning most seats, 194, in the 460-member lower house, the former ruling party, the socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), lost majority in the wake of the October general election that saw a record turn-out and paved the way for three opposition parties to form a pro-EU government headed by Tusk. PiS was in power for eight years. (PAP)
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