A total of 237 MPs in the early hours of Friday voted to defeat a no-confidence motion put forward by the opposition against Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski, whom it accused of irregularities in the purchase of face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile, 213 deputies supported the opposition's bid, and there were no abstentions, state news agency PAP reported.
The motion had little chance of succeeding because the country’s governing conservatives hold a comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament.
Photo: PAP/Mateusz Marek
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki won a parliamentary vote of confidence in his government.
Defending his health minister in an emotional speech on Thursday night, Morawiecki told lawmakers he was convinced Szumowski “will be judged by history as one of the best health ministers in Europe" at the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
Morawiecki said this week that his country had “passed the test” by coming together to fight an unprecedented coronavirus outbreak.
A total of 25,177 people have tested positive for the COVID-19 disease in Poland, with 1,127 deaths from the coronavirus so far, public health officials reported on Friday morning.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR, PAP