New ministers appointed as Polish gov’t reshuffled

The reshuffle in conservative Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's Cabinet came after a swathe of Polish government ministers secured seats in the European Parliament as result of a vote held last month.

Marian Banaś, a deputy finance minister and head of the National Revenue Administration, was on Tuesday sworn in as Poland’s new finance minister to replace Teresa Czerwińska, while Bożena Borys-Szopa took over as the new family, labour and social policy minister to replace Elżbieta Rafalska.

Dariusz Piontkowski became the new education minister to replace Anna Zalewska, while Elżbieta Witek, a former government spokeswoman, took over from Joachim Brudziński as interior minister.

Meanwhile, Jacek Sasin, a Cabinet minister heading the Government Standing Committee, was appointed as a deputy prime minister.

In other appointments on Tuesday, Michał Dworczyk, head of the Prime Minister's Office, and Michał Woś, a former justice minister, were sworn in as Cabinet members with the rank of minister.

President Andrzej Duda (fourth left) and members of Poland's reshuffled conservative Cabinet. Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański

Earlier in the day, outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Beata Szydło told reporters that Culture Minister Piotr Gliński, who also serves as a deputy prime minister, would be taking over her brief as head of the Government’s Social Policy Committee.

Szydło, a former conservative prime minister, garnered a record 524,951 votes when a new set of Polish EuroMPs was elected last Sunday.

Poland's governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party won a decisive victory over a coalition of opposition parties in the European Parliament elections on May 26.

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Source: TVP Info, IAR