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Poland’s new parliament to convene next week

07.11.2023 20:00
Poland’s new parliament will convene next Monday, following a decision by President Andrzej Duda.
Polish President Andrzej Duda.
Polish President Andrzej Duda.Photo: Jakub Szymczuk/KPRP

The lower house, the Sejm, will start its session at noon on November 13, while the upper house of the country’s bicameral legislature, the Senate, will begin its first session at 4 p.m., the president's office announced on Tuesday.

Duda's office said that lawmaker Marek Sawicki, a former agriculture minister, would open the inaugural session of the lower house, while conservative senator Michał Seweryński 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 Polish president said on Monday that he would entrust the mission of forming a new government to conservative Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Morawiecki's ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party won Poland's October 15 election, but failed to secure a parliamentary majority, increasing the likelihood of an opposition government.

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Source: IAR, PAP