President Lech Kaczynski has officially nominated Donald Tusk for the position of Polish prime minister, who now has two weeks to appoint a new government.
The nomination ceremony took place at the presidential palace in Warsaw on Friday at 3 p.m. and lasted only about one minute.
Donald Tusk collected a red file containing his nomination from the president’s hands. Then the politicians shook hands before reporters’ cameras and disappeared behind a back door. Their meeting behind closed doors is expected to last one hour.
The Civic Platform leader arrived at the ceremony as a “private individual”, as he himself put it, and will leave the presidential palace in a governmental limousine accompanied by officers from the Agency for Government Protection (BOR).
Donald Tusk has been offered the use of an office in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, but instead he has chosen to work from his office in the Parliament building until the time when the new government is appointed. (photo: Jakub Szymczuk)