Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will double as finance minister until a permanent replacement is found for Kościński, Anita Czerwińska told reporters.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański
She made the announcement after senior ruling party politicians held a four-hour meeting in Warsaw to discuss possible changes in the government amid reports of poor handling of a tax reform by officials.
Anita Czerwińska is spokeswoman for Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party. Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik
Kościński's resignation comes after Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński recently told reporters that officials responsible for the tax reform “on the political and semi-political level didn’t quite handle their responsibilities" in the right way.
He added: “Maybe it was due to a lack of sufficient qualifications, maybe also due to a lack of goodwill.”
Kaczyński, who is a deputy prime minister, was also quoted as saying at the time that "those responsible will face consequences," the state PAP news agency reported.
Poland's conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński. Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
Potential candidates to succeed Kościński include Development and Technology Minister Piotr Nowak, according to Polish news outlets.
Poland's Development and Technology Minister Piotr Nowak. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
The Polish prime minister last month said the government would make alterations to a package of new tax rules to increase citizens' gains from his ruling conservatives’ wide-ranging Polish New Deal programme.
He at the time hailed the tax reform as a set of "unprecedented tax cuts, the biggest in the history of the Republic of Poland."
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Source: PAP