Maciej Berek, appointed on Thursday as minister supervising implementation of government policy, said on Friday his job is to monitor the most important projects and keep them on schedule.
He will “provide the prime minister with selected information illustrating the pace of work and showing whether priority tasks are being carried out at the speed we agreed,” he told public broadcaster Polish Radio. He stressed the role “has nothing to do with entering the prime minister’s competences.”
Berek said his team will spell out concrete tasks with short-, medium- and long-term timelines. “We want to agree on a list of specific topics, not general slogans […] We want to choose a short list of issues we will ‘deliver’,” he said, adding he will consult individual ministers and the government will report the results.
Asked about legislation on civil partnerships, Berek said the government wants to regulate the situation of people outside marriage.
“I think it’s a matter of a short time before, within coalition arrangements, we reach a point that allows us to put the project on the table and send it to the Sejm [lower house of the Polish parliament]. There is an intention to prepare and pass this bill,” he noted.
On when Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet President-elect Karol Nawrocki, Berek replied that “it is a question for both gentlemen,” adding the president would issue an invitation if he wished.
On Thursday, President Andrzej Duda appointed new cabinet members, including Radosław Sikorski as deputy prime minister, Waldemar Żurek as justice minister and Andrzej Domański as finance and economy minister.
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Source: PAP