Former Polish PM Morawiecki Forms Parliamentary Caucus Rival to PiS, Deepening Opposition Split
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Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has left the once powerful PiS party with 40 deputies. Now party founder Jarosław Kaczyński stands before the ruins of his life's work. Will he give up?
Party Split Shatters Poland’s Conservative Opposition
Former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has formally launched a new parliamentary group with 40 MPs and one senator, deepening the internal split in the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party and reshaping Poland’s opposition ahead of next year’s parliamentary election. The new caucus, operating under Morawiecki’s Rozwój Plus (Development Plus) banner, becomes the third-largest grouping in the parliament, giving the former pri…
A split has emerged on the right in Poland now that former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, along with some forty members of parliament, is breaking away from PiS and forming his own parliamentary group. That right-conservative party was in power for eight years and was until now the largest party in parliament. It must now relinquish that position to the party of current Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
For over a week, the public has been witnessing one of the most turbulent political divorces in the history of the Third Polish Republic. A group of parliamentarians, led by former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, known as the Scouts, have refused to abide by the decision of the PiS leadership and have not resigned from the Rozwój Plus association, which was intended to counterbalance the far-right line espoused by PiS candidate for Prime Mini…
Following the split of Poland's largest opposition party PiS, former head of government Morawiecki announced the creation of a new faction.
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