Kopacz officially named future PM by president

President Bronisław Komorowski has formally asked Ewa Kopacz to form a new government after the resignation of Donald Tusk. New ministers should be sworn in on September 22 and on September 27 the new PM will present her program to the Sejm. Upon the nomination Kopacz said that it was her job now to convince millions of Poles to back her cabinet. “This will be a good government,” she added. According to the Polish Press Agency, politicians from junior coalition partner Polish People’s Party, Janusz Piechociński, Marek Sawicki and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, will retain their posts in the government. Out of the other ministers, it is highly probable that Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz will lose his job. He could be replace by Jacek Cichocki or Marek Biernacki, now justice minister. Deputy Minister Adam Ździebło is seen as the successor of Infrastructure and Development Minister Elżbieta Bieńkowska, who was recently named the EU’s internal market commissioner. It is unclear who will be health minister, but the names of Beata Małecka-Libera and Sławomir Neumann have shown up in this context.