The Sejm, with votes from Third Way, Confederation, and a majority of KO MPs, rejected the motion to immediately proceed to the second reading of the parliamentary bill establishing Christmas Eve as a non-working day. The PiS club, Lewica, and the Razem parliamentary group, along with two KO MPs, Franciszek Sterczewski and Małgorzata Tracz, voted in favor of proceeding to the second reading without sending the bill to a committee.

The motion to send the bill to the Committee on Social Policy and Family and the Committee on Economy and Development was passed. Although a debate on the bill had already taken place, the vote was preceded by a series of speeches from MPs (more on this below).




Before the vote, Daria Gosek-Popiołek from Lewica spoke, urging MPs to proceed immediately to the second reading. "If this bill goes to, among other committees, the Committee on Economy and Development, headed by a great opponent of a free Christmas Eve, namely MP Ryszard Petru, then there will be no free Christmas Eve. Neither this year nor in the coming years," she said.

Ryszard Petru, who was addressed, appealed for the bill to be sent to committee. "This is a parliamentary insertion without cost analysis. There are industries that will gain from this and those that will lose. I appeal for reason, for analysis. Let's not do this the way the right side did, in a rush, like the Polish Deal," said the Poland 2050 MP.

Radosław Fogiel from PiS also spoke. "I propose that the committee chaired by MP Petru work on this project on the upcoming Christmas Eve and that the committee be obliged to complete its work before the 'Feast of the Six Kings' holiday. Of course, it is rather unserious to entrust the work on a bill so important to citizens to its bitter opponent," he stated.