On Monday at noon, the 10th term Sejm will meet for its opening session, during which new members of parliament will be sworn in and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and alternate speakers will be elected. President Andrzej Duda will participate in the meeting and deliver a speech; Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will resign from the government. Also on Monday afternoon, the 11th-term Senate will convene for its opening session, during which senators will be sworn in and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and alternate speakers will be elected. The meeting will also be opened by the President of the Republic of Poland.
The new Sejm and the resignation of the government
The first session of the Sejm of the 10th term will be opened by the senior marshal, appointed by the president from among the most senior deputies. By decision of the president, Marek Sawicki (PSL) became the senior marshal. As Andrzej Duda justified, Sawicki has the longest parliamentary experience and has become known as a man of dialogue.
As CIS emphasizes, the first day of the Sejm’s tenth term will be solemn. In addition to President Andrzej Duda, the Sejm will be attended by representatives of the highest state authorities, members of the diplomatic corps, former presidents, speakers of the Sejm and prime ministers, commanders of the Polish army, representatives of churches and religious organizations. associations.
According to the statement, the President and the Senior Marshal will lay flowers in front of the plaques commemorating St. before the start of the meeting. John Paul II, Members of Parliament of the Second Polish Republic who died during the Second World War, and President Lech Kaczyński, Chairman of the Sejm Maciej Płażyński and Members of Parliament who died in the Smolensk disaster.
After the opening of the meeting, the sounds of the national anthem played by the Polish Army Representative Orchestra will be heard, after which the President will deliver a speech. After the head of state’s speech, the senior marshal will speak.
Then the MPs will take the oath. The Oath Schedule will be read by the Senior Marshal; each Member of Parliament, after reading his name, will rise from his seat in the parliament benches and say the word: “I promise”; he can also add the phrase, “So help me God.”
The first decision of the parliamentarians of the tenth term will be the election of the chairman of the Sejm. At least fifteen parliamentarians may nominate a candidate as chairman of the Sejm. An MP can only support one candidacy. Immediately after the elections, the Marshal of the Sejm will preside over the proceedings.
The next item on the agenda on the first day of the first session of the Sejm will be to determine the number of deputy chairmen of the chamber and their election. A draft resolution on this subject can be tabled by at least fifteen parliamentarians. Usually, all parliamentary clubs are represented in the Presidium of the Sejm. The Marshal of the Sejm orders the election of alternate speakers.
The Sejm also elects twenty Sejm secretaries from among the youngest members of parliament. Candidates are nominated by the Presidium of the Sejm.
The Constitution and Rules of Procedure of the Sejm also stipulate that the Prime Minister – currently Mateusz Morawiecki – will submit the resignation of his government during the first meeting of the newly elected chamber.
The next Prime Minister will be designated by the President and appointed together with other members of the government within 14 days from the date of the first session of the Sejm. Within fourteen days of his appointment, the Prime Minister presents the government’s program of activities to the Sejm, together with a motion for a vote of confidence. The Sejm adopts a vote of confidence by an absolute majority of votes in the presence of at least half of the legal number of deputies.
The President announced in a recent speech that after analysis and consultation, he decided to entrust the mission of forming a government to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
In the October 15 Sejm elections, PiS won 35.38 percent. votes, KO – 30.70 percent, Trzecia Droga – 14.40 percent, New Left – 8.61 percent, Confederation – 7.16 percent.
PiS won 194 seats in the Sejm elections, KO – 157; Third way – 65; New Left – 26; Konfederacja – 18. More than 100 of them will sit on the parliamentary benches for the first time.
11th term Senate
Also on Monday at The 16th President convened the Senate’s opening session of the 11th term. Andrzej Duda and the newly elected chairman of the Sejm will be guests at this meeting. The president’s speech is scheduled.
Before the start of the Senate session, the President will lay wreaths in front of the plaque commemorating Senators of the Second Polish Republic who were murdered, murdered, missing and died during the Second World War and the post-war period of repression.
The first session of the Senate begins at 4 p.m.; the president will open it, and then he will transfer the proceedings to the senior marshal, to whom he has appointed the senior senator, Michał Seweryński.
The Senior Marshal will take the oath and appoint three secretaries for the first session from among the youngest senators; with their help, he will take the senator’s oath and elect the Senate president.
After reading the oath, the senators, summoned by the secretary of the first session, stand and say the word: “I swear.” They can also add the words “So help me God.”
The Senate elects the Marshal from among the candidates nominated by at least ten Senators and adopts a resolution by an absolute majority.
If more than one candidate is nominated and none of the candidates receives an absolute majority of votes in the first ballot, the name of the person who obtained the fewest votes in the previous round will be removed from the list before the next voting rounds. deleted. of candidates.
The Senator elected Marshal makes a declaration of acceptance of this position and then takes over the chairmanship of the meeting from the Senior Marshal. Then, with the help of the secretaries of the first meeting, it elects deputy chairmen of the Senate and secretaries of the Senate.
In accordance with the applicable rules of procedure of the House, the Senate shall elect no more than four Deputy Chairmen from among the candidates nominated by at least ten Senators, adopting a resolution by an absolute majority. If more than four candidates are nominated, the same provisions apply to the election as to the election of marshal.
Last Friday, the coalition agreement was initialed in the Sejm by the Chairman of the Civic Platform, Donald Tusk, the Chairman of Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia, the Chairman of the Polish People’s Party, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and the co-chairmen of the Polish People’s Party. New Left: Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Robert Biedroń.
Under this agreement, the position of President of the Senate will be held by KO Senator Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska until November 13, 2025, after which she will be replaced by a person appointed by the Civic Coalition.
Marek Pęk will be Law and Justice’s candidate as deputy marshal, while the left will nominate Magdalena Biejat for this position.
As the Senate Information Center recalled in a statement, 41 senators, elected from the Coalition Electoral Committee PO.N IPL Zieloni, will serve in the Senate for the eleventh term. The Law and Justice Electoral Commission will be represented by 34 senators. Szymon Hołownia’s Third Way Poland 2050 Coalition Election Commission – the Polish People’s Party has 11 senators, and the New Left Election Commission – 9. There will also be 5 senators in the House, candidates from their own election commissions.
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Source: wPolityce