No date set for announcing new government

Prime Minister Donald Tusk will file his resignation most likely next week, but no date has been set yet, government spokesperson Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska told Polish Radio. After that, the appointment of a new PM and government will be the president’s responsibility, Kidawa-Błońska added. When a new person is chosen, he or she will have two weeks to present a program and get an acceptance vote in parliament. At a meeting on Wednesday, the leadership of the ruling Civic Platform party agreed that Sejm Speaker Ewa Kopacz would be the best candidate for a new PM. She and Tusk were due to meet President Bronisław Komorowski later that day, but no announcement was made after the meeting. Komorowski is now attending the NATO summit in Wales. “The president has to come back from Wales, he has to have time to make a decision, this will last a bit longer,” Kidawa-Błońska said.