Conservative lawmaker Antoni Macierewicz, a former defence minister, opened the inaugural meeting of the lower house, the Sejm, minutes after noon.
Poland's newly elected lawmakers inaugurate their four-year term. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
President Andrzej Duda then addressed the new MPs, congratulating them on their election while also thanking voters for going to the polls last month.
President Andrzej Duda addresses MPs as Poland's new parliament convenes for the first time on Tuesday. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
President Andrzej Duda and MP Antoni Macierewicz in the houses of parliament in Warsaw on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the upper house of the country’s bicameral legislature, the Senate, was scheduled to begin its first session at 4 p.m.
Opposition senator Barbara Borys-Damięcka was expected to preside over the first sitting of the new Senate.
Poles elected a new set of 460 MPs and 100 senators when they went to the ballot box last month.
The conservative Law and Justice party, allied with two smaller groupings in a United Right coalition, won Poland's October 13 parliamentary election and secured a second term in power.
It maintained a majority in the 460-seat lower house, but narrowly lost control of the 100-seat upper house.
Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński said ahead of the elections that his party would bring in a raft of new policies during the first 100 days of its next term in government.
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Source: TVP Info, IAR