If you committed 10 months ago to implementing specific tasks in the coalition agreement, you have to get down to work and do it, and not pretend that you are doing it – said Marek Sawicki, MP of PSL-Trzej Droga. The coalition partners are divided by several issues, including abortion law and changes in health insurance contributions. Today, the leaders of the ruling groups are to meet. – I still believe that it is possible to reach an agreement on issues concerning women's rights, on issues concerning LGBT rights – said Dorota Łoboda, spokeswoman for the KO club.
A meeting of the leaders of the ruling coalition groups is scheduled for Thursday evening. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced last week that the coalition partners will have “a very serious conversation to sum up the first year after the elections”. He said that he was aware that the first year of government “will be a grind, consisting mainly of cleaning up”, but now – he said – all the coalition partners “believe that we should announce this new agenda, already forward-looking”.
Disputed issues in the coalition
There are several contentious issues in the ruling coalition. These include abortion law, civil partnerships, health insurance contributions, and the Na start housing loan (also known as a zero percent loan).
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– I still believe that it is possible to reach an agreement on issues concerning women's rights, on issues concerning the rights of disabled people. LGBT. We will of course convince the coalition partners to treat this as our joint commitment, simply as the coalition on October 15 – said KO club spokeswoman Dorota Łoboda in an interview with TVN24 reporter Małgorzata Mielcarek.
– We owe it to the citizens who supported us before the elections, who voted for us and who are waiting for the coalition as a whole to deliver on its commitments – she added.
Łoboda: I still believe that agreement is possible on issues related to women's rights, LGBT peopleTVN24
Cwalina-Śliwowska: maybe it will be easier to understand each other if there is better communication
MP of Poland 2050-Trzej Droga Żaneta Cwalina-Śliwowska drew attention to the need for better communication of needs in terms of coalition partners. – Each party has a different election program, different demands, although we agreed earlier that we would implement what is in the coalition agreement, and that is how we proceeded. Perhaps it will be easier to reach an understanding if there is better communication between the parties about how they view a given problem – she said.
She added that “it will be easier to work out a final solution and perhaps it will be a mechanism where no one will feel like a loser.”
Asked whether at the moment she had the impression that someone might feel defeated, she replied that “if we are discussing specific bills, there is indeed a great clash of views and when it comes to voting on the bill, if the bill is lost, the author of the bill may feel defeated in some way.”
Cwalina-Śliwowska: maybe it will be easier to understand each other if there is better communicationTVN24
Sawicki: we have to get down to work
– If you committed yourself 10 months ago to carrying out specific tasks in the coalition agreement, then you need to get down to work and do it, and not pretend that you are doing it – said Marek Sawicki (PSL-TD).
When asked whether the government is now pretending that something is being done, he replied: – Well, many tasks from this area, which are included in the coalition agreement, have not been implemented.
– For example, reversing the Polish Order, repairing the justice system, restoring the rule of law in Poland. These matters have not been implemented, so it is high time to implement them – he indicated.
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