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Poland’s new parliament to convene next week

06.11.2019 01:00
Poland’s new parliament will convene on November 12, a spokesman for the country’s president has said.
Błażej Spychalski, press spokesman for Polands President Andrzej Duda, during a media briefing on Tuesday.
Błażej Spychalski, press spokesman for Poland's President Andrzej Duda, during a media briefing on Tuesday.Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

The lower house, the Sejm, will start its session at noon that day, while the upper house of the country’s bicameral legislature, the Senate, will begin its first session at 4 p.m., the presidential spokesman, Błażej Spychalski, said.

He told reporters on Tuesday that conservative lawmaker Antoni Macierewicz, a former defence minister, would open the inaugural session of the lower house, while opposition senator Barbara Borys-Damięcka would open the first sitting of the new Senate.

Poles elected a new set of 460 MPs and 100 senators when they went to the ballot box last month.

The conservative Law and Justice party, allied with two smaller groupings in a United Right coalition, won Poland's October 13 parliamentary election and secured a second term in power.

It maintained a majority in the 460-seat lower house, but narrowly lost control of the 100-seat upper house.

Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński said ahead of the elections that his party would bring in a raft of new policies during the first 100 days of its next term in government.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR