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Szydlo, 54, who is one of Poland's most popular politicians, has
been in her post for two years and said in November there will
be changes in her government to mark the midpoint of the
parliamentary term.
"At the beginning of next week, there will most likely be
changes in the government," a high-ranked PiS source told
Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Everything points
to Mateusz Morawiecki becoming the new prime minister."
Three other PiS and government sources confirmed the
information, with a government official saying that "the final
decision has not yet been made".
The government's spokesman could not be reached immediately.
Morawiecki, 49, who also has been a deputy prime minister, has
been broadly considered as "anointed" by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the
chairman of PiS and Poland's most influential politician, while
Szydlo lacks the full trust of the party's chairman, observers
say.
Since joining the PiS government, Morawiecki, a former bank
chief executive, has pledged billions of euros worth of
investment in the economy.
But public investment has faltered and has been slowly
recovering only this year, still below expectations. Private
investments has been sluggish, with companies worrying about tax
burdens and changing legal frameworks as factors keeping them
from pumping money into their businesses.
The prime minister and Morawiecki have been fighting for control
largest state-owned companies, with the conflict becoming public
earlier this year during the selection process for the chief
executive of PZU, central Europe's biggest insurance company.
(Additional reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Pawel
Florkiewicz, Marcig Goettig and Bartosz Chmielewski; Editing by
Raissa Kasolowsky)
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