In his speech on Monday evening, President Andrzej Duda will name a candidate for prime minister to form a Polish government, according to Politico.
The ruling Law and Justice Party came first in last month’s election but appeared to lack the seats for a governing majority, unlike Donald Tusk’s opposition.
The head of the president’s office, Marcin Mastalerek, wrote on social media that Duda’s decision, made after “consultation and deep consideration,” would be “final.”
Poland’s three largest opposition parties announced after the October 15 election that they were ready to form a coalition headed by Donald Tusk, former prime minister and president of the European Council, to replace the incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) Party, and asked Duda to allow them to establish a government.
Tusk‘s Civic Coalition, together with the centre-right Third Way and Left parties, has 248 seats in the 460-member lower house of the parliament.
PiS won the first place in the election with 194 seats, but is unlikely to find allies to gain the necessary 231-seat parliamentary majority. However, Duda, a former PiS member and party loyalist, stated that presidents traditionally gave the leader of the largest party the first chance to form a government.
If his candidate fails to win a vote of confidence in the parliament, it will be up to the parliament to choose a nominee.
