Poland’s president Andrzej Duda has formally sworn in a reshuffled government in which the leader of the main ruling party, Jarosław Kaczyński, becomes deputy prime minister. 

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The swearing-in ceremony of the new ministers in the cabinet of the PM Mateusz Morawiecki took place on Tuesday. The number of ministries has been cut from 20 to 14. Law and Justice, the major party in the ruling coalition, received 12 ministries, while Solidarity Poland and the Agreement took one apiece.

The new Polish government is composed of: PM Mateusz Morawiecki, the deputy PM Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński will oversee the interior, justice and defence ministries), the deputy PM Piotr Gliński (Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport), the State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin, the Development Minister Jarosław Gowin, the Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek, the Environment Minister Michał Kurtyka, the Agriculture Minister Grzegorz Puda, the Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk, the Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, the Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński, the Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, the Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński, the Family Minister Marlena Maląg, the Health Minister Adam Niedzielski and the Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro.

– This is a time for a good and wise decisions, which will have to be made. This is a time for investments that must be carried through in Poland, this is a time for the execution of all the promises that fell in successive campaigns, and which we have not realized yet – Andrzej Duda said during the ceremony held in the gardens of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw

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