PM officially resigns

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who was recently chosen president of the European Council, officially filed his resignation to President Bronisław Komorowski on Tuesday. “I handed in my notice,” the PM responded to journalists who asked him about the dismissal, when he was leaving the president's office after a seating of the National Security Council. The president's spokesperson Joanna Trzaska-Wieczorek said that the resignation would be officially accepted on Thursday. The president will later meet PM candidate Ewa Kopacz, now speaker of the lower parliamentary house. Komorowski will have two weeks from accepting Tusk's resignation to nominate the new PM, but it is highly probable that it will happen earlier. On September 22 the president is leaving Poland to attend the UN General Assembly session in New York. The new PM will then have two weeks to present a political program in parliament and get a vote of approval.