The Polish parliament is holding its first meeting since the country's October elections, as two opposing camps are claiming victory and aspiring to form the government.
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00:00 Poland's President Andrzej Duda tells the nation he's given Mateusz Morawiecki of his
00:06 own right-wing Law and Justice Party the mission to form the government. But there's a hung
00:11 parliament with no individual party winning a majority of seats. And as parliament met
00:16 for the first time, more liberal parties that had been in opposition before October's general
00:21 election announced they'd formed the majority coalition.
00:24 "We are ready to draft a text of a traditional motion which will be a guide for us and a
00:31 recommendation." "It concerns both entrepreneurs and workers.
00:38 It concerns education and health care. It concerns villages, agriculture and large metropolises.
00:45 It concerns women's rights, it concerns family integrity."
00:53 The coalition pledges a return to more liberal policies, protecting values such as individual
00:58 freedoms, a separation of government and church, but above all restoring the rule of law.
01:03 "We must start by rebuilding our relations with European Union institutions, understood
01:09 as a way to get to the moment of launching the EU funds, which are blocked for Poland
01:15 today. This has to do with the rules of law, with the order of law in Poland. It's known
01:22 as the European Union. We want to see changes in the law concerning the independence of
01:29 Polish judges, Polish courts." However, Razem, which is part of the coalition,
01:32 decided not to sign the agreement, although it declares its full support for the government
01:36 emerging from the opposition factions. "Unfortunately, during these negotiations,
01:41 we have not been able to obtain guarantees for financing such standard programmes for
01:48 housing, rent, health care, or for employment rights or the termination of the working week."
01:55 The Law and Justice Party will more likely not be able to form a majority in the new
02:01 parliament. However, due to the procedural reasons, Poland will have to wait a few more
02:06 weeks for the transfer of power to the more liberal coalition. Magdalena Chodownik for
02:11 Euronews from Warsaw.
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