Former PM Morawiecki's Faction Splits From Poland’s PiS Before Crucial Election
The breakaway group includes about 40 MPs and leaves PiS as the lower house’s second-largest caucus, pollsters said.
- On Friday, July 24, Poland's largest opposition party, Law and Justice , fractured after former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and loyalists rejected an ultimatum from chairman Jarosław Kaczyński to abandon their Rozwój Plus association.
- Kaczyński demanded parliamentarians leave outside political associations by July 23, viewing the group as a rival. Morawiecki argued his 'two lungs' strategy would court entrepreneurs and younger voters while retaining core conservatives.
- Morawiecki's camp comprises 40 MPs, one senator, and three MEPs. Recent polling showed PiS support fell from 23% to 17.7%, while a potential Rozwój Plus party captured 6.2%, exceeding Poland's 5% parliamentary threshold.
- The departure makes PiS the second-biggest caucus in the lower house behind Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition. On Tuesday, July 28, Kaczyński acknowledged the resignations, though dissenters claimed they were expelled due to an 'intrigue.'
- With the next election due in autumn 2027, 60% of Poles expect Prime Minister Donald Tusk's coalition to lose power. A future joint government could theoretically include PiS, Morawiecki's grouping, the Confederation, and the Polish Crown.
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Forty MPs around former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki have left the largest opposition party in Poland. This could be useful in the end to the right.
The extreme right-wing Polish party has kicked out former Prime Minister Morawiecki and 36 MPs, in one of the worst crises in its history
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