Overview
- Morawiecki confirmed on Wednesday that he and roughly 40 deputies and one senator have formed a new parliamentary faction called Rozwój Plus in the Sejm.
- The PiS party board decided on Tuesday not to expel the dissidents immediately and referred individual cases to its arbitration commission, a step that helped prompt the break.
- The departures trim PiS's seat total by about 40, risking its status as the largest faction and changing the arithmetic for building majorities in parliament.
- Rozwój Plus published a ten-point program that stresses patriotism, security, nuclear power, tax efficiency and digital leadership while rejecting some EU migration and climate policies.
- Early polls put Morawiecki's new group at up to about eight percent, but its long-term electoral impact and possible effects on the European Conservatives and Reformists group remain uncertain and will shape right-wing politics ahead of 2027.