“I certainly won’t make such a declaration today. It will depend on many factors, including how Mateusz Morawiecki’s initiative develops,” PiS MP Jacek Sasin said on TV Republika’s Sakiewicz’s Office when asked whether Law and Justice (PiS) and the politicians gathered around Mateusz Morawiecki would run on a joint electoral list in the next parliamentary election.
Split within PiS
At midnight between Thursday and Friday, the deadline set by the Law and Justice leadership expired for MPs belonging to internal party associations. They were required to sign declarations stating that they were not members of organizations engaged in political activity. Those who refused faced expulsion from the party. The dispute primarily concerned the circle around former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Rozwój Plus association.
On Friday, PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński announced that “more than 30” MPs had resigned their party membership. The party’s Political Committee is expected to formally acknowledge the departures on Tuesday, July 28. Morawiecki, meanwhile, said that his association currently brings together 40 MPs, one senator, and three Members of the European Parliament.
Jacek Sasin was asked about the split during an appearance on TV Republika’s Sakiewicz’s Office. The PiS deputy leader complied with the party leadership’s decision and withdrew the application to register his own association, Po pierwsze Polska (“Poland First”). Speaking with host Tomasz Sakiewicz, however, he argued that right-wing politicians should not treat one another as their main political opponents despite the current conflict.
“Don’t look for enemies on the right”
The host noted that right-wing voters expect unity and asked whether the current situation represented a definitive split or merely a political separation that could eventually lead to renewed cooperation.
“People want all of us to focus on the main goal, which today is defeating Tusk, to put it plainly, because he is Poland’s main political opponent today,” Sasin replied.
He added that “people can go their separate ways, disagree, and pursue different paths, but the most important thing is not to look for enemies on the right or among colleagues who, until recently, belonged to the same party.”
Sasin acknowledged that the conflict is genuine rather than tactical or staged. In his view, it is too early to say whether the opposing camps will cooperate again. He also recalled earlier splits within the Polish right.
“My impression is that, for now, we are at the stage of separation. The real test will come with the parliamentary candidate lists in the next election, whenever it is held. Time will tell. Today, it is difficult to predict anything,” he said.
He also stressed that “this is not an artificial division—it has many causes and is multifaceted.”
“Morawiecki rejected the compromise”
Later in the interview, Tomasz Sakiewicz referred to Mateusz Morawiecki’s suggestion that Jacek Sasin had been responsible for preventing an agreement between the former prime minister and Jarosław Kaczyński.
“I am surprised that Mateusz Morawiecki attributes such an important role to me. Above all, that claim is deeply offensive to President Kaczyński because it portrays him as a politician without a will of his own, someone who simply follows other people’s suggestions,” Sasin replied.
The PiS politician pointed out that before the conflict erupted, there had been two associations within the party: Morawiecki’s Rozwój Plus and Sasin’s Po pierwsze Polska. According to Sasin, his group immediately complied with the party leadership’s decision and withdrew its application to register the organization.
“It was only natural that President Kaczyński wanted to speak with both sides, not just one, in order to normalize the situation and reach a consensus. Unfortunately, and I say this with full responsibility, Mateusz Morawiecki rejected the reasonable compromise proposed by President Kaczyński,” he said.
Joint electoral list? “I won’t make such a declaration”
Sasin was also asked whether Morawiecki’s political camp and Law and Justice would eventually run together in the parliamentary election, currently scheduled for 2027.
“I certainly won’t make such a declaration today. It will depend on many factors, including how Mateusz Morawiecki’s initiative develops,” he replied.
He added that he “does not expect Mateusz Morawiecki’s political initiative to succeed,” predicting that it would receive “around one percent” of the vote.
“At this moment, there is no possibility of reaching an agreement because we have already gone too far—we are now parting ways. I would like the entire right to reach an understanding. This is not just about Mateusz Morawiecki. As Law and Justice, we are ready to build a broad alliance. A single electoral list for the entire right would be an ideal solution. If the other side creates one unified coalition bloc, then to defeat it we will also have to stand together,” Sasin concluded.