A majority of voters of Law and Justice (PiS) believe that Jarosław Kaczyński’s party should seek cooperation and form a coalition with other right-wing groupings, according to the latest poll by the Pollster Research Institute published by Super Express.
Cooperation Between PiS and the Confederation? A New Poll
Survey respondents were asked whether Law and Justice should declare its willingness to cooperate and potentially form a coalition with the Confederation and the Confederation of the Polish Crown.
The poll shows that among PiS voters, 57 percent supported such a declaration (16 percent were against, and 27 percent had no opinion). Among Confederation voters, support stood at 60 percent (27 percent against, 13 percent undecided), while among voters of the Confederation of the Polish Crown, as many as 79 percent were in favor (14 percent against, 7 percent undecided).
The survey was conducted on January 26–27 this year on a sample of 1,010 adult Poles.
PiS Chairman: “We Must Unite”
In January, PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński spoke about the need to unite right-wing groups during a meeting with residents in Węgrów.
“We must unite with those with whom unity is possible. We must persuade the electorate (…) that it is no advantage to say one has never governed, because that means one does not know how to govern,” the PiS leader said.
He also recalled that PiS has already begun work on a program for the next elections, emphasizing that this time it must be a program for “the whole of patriotic Poland.”
The head of the largest opposition party stressed that the demands of New Hope, the party led by Sławomir Mentzen, could be described as “social Darwinism, extreme liberalism that does not take the interests of ordinary people into account at all.”
“This is a breakdown of a certain social order to which Poles are already accustomed, and quietly there are other plans as well,” the PiS leader noted. He emphasized that in the context of New Hope he “does not really see the possibility of cooperation.” As he added, accusations can also be heard within that party that “PiS and Civic Platform are one and the same evil.” Meanwhile, he stressed, there is “a chasm” between those two parties.
Speaking about threats to the unity of the right, Kaczyński said that the “barrier” is the Confederation of the Polish Crown.
“By entering into an arrangement there, we cut ourselves off from the entire West, but above all from the country that currently guarantees our security,” he emphasized.
By contrast, Kaczyński described Krzysztof Bosak, the leader of the National Movement, as “a young politician with a great deal of promise.”
“Recently he has been attacked for not completing his studies. Of course, I believe that a politician should complete their studies, but there are people who did not finish and are wise, and there are those who are professors and are foolish,” he concluded.