There are signals from the government of Donald Tusk that no work will be done on President Andrzej Duda’s proposal regarding the budget law.
On Saturday, President Andrzej Duda vetoed the budget bill, which included PLN 3 billion for public media. “There can be no permission for this given the blatant violation of the Constitution and the principles of a democratic constitutional state. Public media must first be repaired reliably and in accordance with the law,” the president wrote on the X platform.
He also announced that after the holidays he would submit his own project on, among other things, raises for teachers and other expenses planned in this law. He also called on the presidents of the Sejm and Senate to “urgently convene a meeting of both Houses to consider and approve the project this year.”
“An attempt to finance the public media through a budget bill (by the parliamentary majority) is unacceptable in the current situation. In my bill, all other budget expenditures – including salary increases for teachers – will be maintained,” Duda said.
The president’s veto of the budget bill. What will Tusk’s government do?
– There will be no emergency work on the President’s proposals, and no additional session of the Sejm will take place, said one of the deputy ministers of Donald Tusk’s government in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza”. He added that it is not the president who determines the state’s financial policy, “nor is he responsible for regulating the work of the Sejm.”
– I assure you that the government has ways to meet its obligations; it does not need a budget-related law. After what Andrzej Duda did, the situation requires some adjustments and a different way to fulfill obligations. But at the end of January we will still be able to manage with the budget, according to the interlocutor from ‘GW’. More details will be known on Wednesday after the Tusk government meeting.
Previously, “Wyborcza” reported that the president may refer the budget bill to the Constitutional Court in January. According to the newspaper, this could be an excuse to try to dissolve the Sejm due to the failure to approve the state budget.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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