PM Szydło dismisses Treasury Minister

On September 15, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has dismissed the Minister of Treasury Dawid Jackiewicz. "Dawid Jackiewicz met his commitment and presented the concept and legislative solution [on liquidation of the Ministry of Treasury], so I made a decision to dismiss the Minister," PM Szydło proclaimed during her conference on Thursday. The Prime Minister emphasized that only one stage left on the way to the full liquidation of the Ministry and the project will be moved to Sejm, the lower house of Polish parliament, within two weeks. Beata Szydło also expressed her thanks to Dawid Jackiewicz and appointed Henryk Kowalczyk (current chairman of the Government Standing Committee) as a supervisor for the final stage of legislative documents' preparation. Minister Jackiewicz, in his turn, thanked Prime Minister Beata Szydło and the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) chairman Jarosław Kaczyński for "support and the trust".