Rzeczpospolita’s editor-in-chief Michał Szułdrzyński has no expectations that the president and the government will be able to work together productively:
“On 6 August, Karol Nawrocki will not only begin his presidency, he will also embark on the next battle in the Polish-Polish war. I would gladly be proven wrong, but many of the personnel decisions Nawrocki has made suggest that he is preparing for a clash with Donald Tusk and the governing coalition. The latest government reshuffle should be viewed in the same light. Both Tusk and Nawrocki have not so much refurnished the institutions under their control as deployed troops that will compete in the next rounds of a political conflict that in France has been referred to for almost 40 years as cohabitation.”