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Polish FinMin dismissed

Xinhua, September 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Poland's Finance Minister Pawel Szalamacha has been dismissed, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo announced Wednesday.

Szydlo told a press conference that deputy Prime Minister and Development Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who will also lead a new Government Economic Committee, will replace Szalamacha as the new Finance Minister.

Szalamacha had submitted a resignation which she accepted, Szydlo said that Szalamacha had "done a great job" in preparing the 2017 budget which was accepted by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

This is the second high-level personnel change in the Polish Finance Ministry this year. Deputy Finance Minister Konrad Raczkowski was dismissed in March over controversial statements about the banking sector. Endit