Polish president to announce new PM on Monday - aide


FILE PHOTO: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks as he attends the military parade on Armed Forces Day, celebrated annually on August 15 to commemorate Poland's victory over the Soviet Union's Red Army in 1920, in Warsaw, Poland, August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's president will tell the nation on Monday evening whom he will appoint as prime minister, an aide said, drawing a line under weeks of uncertainty after the ruling nationalists lost their parliamentary majority in an Oct. 15 election.

President Andrzej Duda, an ally of PiS, said before the election he would give the first shot at forming a government to the largest single party.

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