Poland’s right-wing populists unveiled their minority government on Monday, which, despite a major surprise, has failed to win a parliamentary vote for two weeks, AFP reports.

After the likely failure, it will be the turn of the pro-European majority led by the leader of the Civic Coalition (KO, center) Donald Tusk to form its government.

“We respect the constitutional custom by appointing a government represented by the party that won the elections,” said PiS, Polish President Andrzej Duda after the presentation of the new government by Mateusz Morawiecki.

In legislative elections on 15 October, PiS won 194 seats in the lower house of parliament, but was outnumbered by a coalition of pro-European forces Coalition of Citizens (KO), A Treia Voce (Trzecia Droga) and Stânga (Lewica), which had 248 seats.

Despite the electoral arithmetic, Duda instructed Moravetski to form the government during the first session of the new assembly.

The proposed cabinet includes both well-known personalities, such as Mariusz Blaszczak, who will remain the Minister of Defense, and experts unknown to the general public. Women occupy half of ministerial positions.

However, without a majority and with all other parliamentary forces publicly refusing to join the new government, it looks doomed.

Then Donald Tusk, a former liberal prime minister from the pro-European majority coalition, will have to present his own government.

Tusk condemned Morawiecki’s appointment, accusing President Duda, who comes from the populist nationalist camp, of “wasting time” to delay a political transition after eight years of PiS rule.

“As I said, they will want to steal a few more days,” Tusk told supporters at a rally earlier this month.

For him, this decision “will not change anything”, meaning that he himself will become the prime minister again.

Tusk was prime minister until 2014. The following year, PiS won the parliamentary elections and has been in power ever since.