The Polish government has showered criticism over the burden on the state finances caused by the president’s veto

K. Nawrocki took office last year, but his relationship with the pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government is tense.

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The President of Poland, as the head of state, is elected for a five-year term and traditionally plays a representative role.

Since 1989, when the country returned to democracy after half a century of communist rule, presidents have more or less adhered to this principle.

However, the Constitution grants the head of state the right to veto bills passed by parliament, which can become a problem if the largest parliamentary party does not have the necessary two-thirds majority to override the veto.

Over the past 13 months, K. Nawrocki has vetoed 45 bills passed by parliament and has been dubbed the “veto man” by the media and lawmakers because of this.

Many of these bills were related to economic, financial, and tax issues.

“Repeated vetoes by President Nawrocki mean at least 8 billion zlotys (2.1 billion US dollars, 1.8 billion euros) in losses from the state budget perspective,” Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said on Friday while presenting the 2027 budget draft.

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He accused K. Nawrocki of acting “extremely irresponsibly.”

The President’s press representative called the government’s criticism “clumsy manipulation.”

Credit rating agency Fitch confirmed Poland’s debt rating at “A-” last week – meaning the country’s credit quality is high and the risk of default is low.

However, the agency warned that “the government and president’s relationship, which usually lacks cooperation and is sometimes even hostile, including a record number of vetoes, limits Poland’s ability to effectively implement economic policy and reforms.”

The government’s proposals for the 2027 budget are based on assumptions that the budget deficit will be about 6.4% of GDP, economic growth will reach 3%, inflation will be 2.8%, and the unemployment rate at the end of the year will be 6 percent.

Poland – an EU and NATO member bordering Russia and Ukraine – plans to allocate 4.51% of its GDP to defense, or nearly 200 billion zlotys.

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