Duda proposes next year’s Independence Day date for referendum

President Andrzej Duda, suggested that the constitutional referendum should take place on next year’s Independence Day - November 11. “I will soon appoint a plenipotentiary for the constitutional referendum,” Duda said in an interview with wSieci weekly. “I would like that for the first time since the fall of communism in Poland, Poles can decide on the development of the country,” Duda added, without revealing what kind of changes to the constitutions he would propose. Current Polish constitution was adopted in 1997, after national referendum.