“President Andrzej Duda has appointed Wojciech Murdzek to serve as minister for science and higher education at the request of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki,” the Polish Prime Minister's Office said in a Twitter post.
It attached a photo of the ceremony, which was held with health safety precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Murdzek, until now a deputy minister for development as well as a member of parliament, replaces Jarosław Gowin, a senior centre-right politician who earlier this month resigned his government job amid a dispute over an upcoming presidential election.
Murdzek previously worked under Jadwiga Emilewicz, the Polish development minister who was last week appointed to double as a deputy prime minister.
All three politicians—Murdzek, Gowin and Emilewicz—are from the centre-right Alliance group, which is a junior partner in Poland's governing coalition led by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party.
The new Polish science minister is an electronic engineer by training.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR