As President Andrzej Duda opens consultations with party leaders to form a new government, here's how the opposition's majority in the Polish parliament will affect the EU's sixth-largest economy - as well as the bloc itself.
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00:45 - In on international scene,
00:47 Tusk will attempt to improve Poland's relations
00:51 with our key partners,
00:53 not just Germany, the European Union,
00:56 but also with Ukrainians
00:59 who with whom the current government
01:02 fell out quite shortly before the election.
01:06 So this will be the big change.
01:09 But fixing the relations with the EU in particular
01:14 will require domestic changes,
01:16 namely restoring the independence of judiciary,
01:21 restoring the rule of law,
01:23 which is a condition for the EU
01:25 to release the funding for Poland.
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01:42 - There is a number of reasons
01:55 why Law and Justice Party is not as popular
01:59 as it was four years ago.
02:02 First of all, we have a very different economic situation.
02:06 There is a cost of living crisis
02:08 and many voters attributed this situation
02:13 to law and justice prolific spending,
02:16 which fueled inflation.
02:18 So this is one of the concerns
02:20 which often comes out in opinion research.
02:25 But at least equally important
02:27 is what's been happening to Polish democracy,
02:31 to rule of law, to women's rights,
02:34 to our external relations.
02:37 I think you can say that people have been fed up
02:41 with the policy of making enemies all around Poland
02:45 and also of the corruption and arrogance of this government.
02:51 So largely this was a protest vote
02:56 against this type of conduct of power.
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03:09 Well, first of all, these changes,
03:25 there will be a lot of challenges for the new government
03:28 because of very likely opposition from President Duda
03:33 who can veto the government legislations.
03:38 And the new government, the new coalition
03:42 will not have enough votes to override presidential veto.
03:47 So it will be a very prolonged and difficult process
03:51 of, as the opposition calls it, a cleanup of the country
03:56 after the eight years of democratic backsliding.
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