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Sejm: A day of two prime ministers

MedExpress Team

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Published Dec. 11, 2023 19:59

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The Sejm did not pass a vote of confidence in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki. 190 deputies voted in favor of the vote, while 266 voted against it. Morawiecki's expose, delivered before noon, was not a program for four years, rather it turned to the past - there was no shortage of references to the PO-PSL governments of 2007-2015 and the eight years of the United Right government.

Prime Minister Morawiecki did not say much about health care. He boasted about the increase in health outlays to a percentage of GDP that Poland has not yet seen, and announced further increases in outlays - provided, of course, that the Sejm grants a vote of confidence to his government. He failed to mention that this percentage he boasts about - that is, the 6 percent of GDP achieved and even exceeded by a huge margin in 2023 (in fact, close to 7 percent) is solely due to the methodology used to relate current spending to GDP two years ago, because in real terms outlays have bee...

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