2024-05-10 09:50 update: 2024-05-13, 12:05
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Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has announced four new ministers in a government reshuffle related to some to-date ministers running for seats in the European Parliament.
Tomasz Siemoniak will be the new minister for interior affairs and administration, Jakub Jaworowski will head the Ministry of State Assets, Krzysztof Paszyk will become the new minister for development and technology and Hanna Wroblewska will lead the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Tusk announced at a press conference on Friday.
Siemoniak will replace Marcin Kierwinski, Jaworowski - Borys Budka, Paszczyk - Krzysztof Hetman and Wroblewska - Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz.
"The ministers who are today saying goodbye to you as ministers have completed the task that we set for ourselves," Donald Tusk said.
The outgoing ministers have been in office for six months as the Donald Tusk government was sworn in in December 2023 following the October 15 general elections.
"I expected effective, sometimes tough actions from those ministers," Tusk continued. "Those first months... were months of 'breaking the wall.' Today it's time to clean up, and it's one of the reasons... why we opted together for those changes."
In the first months in office, the new pro-EU government faced the arduous task of restoring the rule of law in Poland, mending the country's strained relations with the EU and depoliticising state institutions and public media, all effects of the eight-year rule of the socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party.
President Andrzej Duda will swear in the new ministers on Monday morning. (PAP)
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