The Civic Coalition (KO), Poland's main opposition grouping, seeks a no-confidence vote against two ministers and the prime minister's chief of staff after a scathing audit.
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May 25, 2021 The presidential election is a constitutional duty. Its dates are set out in the Constitution, Morawiecki stated. And the executive power, in cooperation with local government, is obliged to hold the vote. Radek Pietruszka/PAP
The Polish prime minister has denied that he broke the law during the organisation of a failed postal presidential election in May last year.
Mateusz Morawiecki s denial of any wrongdoing came just an hour after Poland’s Supreme Audit Office (NIK) announced that it had notified the prosecutor’s office of alleged offences committed by the prime minister, two ministers and his chief of staff during the organisation of the election.
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May 25, 2021 KO leader Borys Budka said at a press conference on Tuesday that the Supreme Audit Office’s (NIK) notification of possible crimes also included the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki. Albert Zawada/PAP
The Civic Coalition (KO), Poland s main opposition grouping, wants two ministers and the prime minister s chief of staff dismissed after the country s audit office notified the prosecutors of possible crimes committed by them while organising an election last year.
State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński and Michał Dworczyk, head of the Prime Minister s Office, all face a possible criminal investigation for possible offences committed during the organisation of a failed presidential election on May 10, 2020.
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Poland has carried out over 10 million vaccinations against Covid-19, the government commissioner for the national vaccination programme has said.
Michał Dworczyk took to Twitter on Friday to hail the achievement. We have just exceeded the number of 10 million vaccinations, he wrote on Friday evening.
Dworczyk added that the national vaccination programme is gathering pace and the country is now halfway to reaching its target of 20 million vaccinations by the end of June.
Poland launched its vaccination programme on December 27 and now uses vaccines produced by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, the Anglo-Swedish firm AstraZeneca, the US biotech company Moderna and the Johnson & Johnson single-shot jab, made by Belgian firm Janssen.