President establishes National Development Council

Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland has established the National Development Council (Narodowa Rada Rozwoju) comprising 87 members that will work out draft bills to be filed with parliament by the President. It is will also serve as a think-tank to formulate strategic development plans. Economists, journalists and politicians, including Adam Jarubas, Stanisław Gomułka, Zyta Gilowska, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Witold Orłowski and Bronisław Wildstein, have been appointed to the council. "Pluralism will guarantee a new quality in public debate," said Maciej Łopiński, a minister at the President's Chancellery. The body will work on ten separate thematic areas. The first session of the council will be about the problems of the health system.