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This is a breaking news story and may be updated as developments unfold. Over 30 MPs from the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), Poland’s main opposition party, have effectively resigned after refusing to sign a loyalty pledge, party leader Jarosław Kaczyński has announced. The dispute centres around a more moderate faction in the party aligned with former prime minister and deputy PiS leader Mateusz Morawiecki, who is one of those now set to be expelled from the party.
They have for months been unhappy with PiS’s move in a hard-right direction. 💬 Prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński @OficjalnyJK. 👉 Udostępnij pic.twitter.com/bycjE0Yq0f — Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (@pisorgpl) July 24, 2026 “Around 30-something…of our group’s MPs have resigned,” revealed Kaczyński at a press conference on Friday.
He added that their departures would be formalised at a meeting of the party’s political committee scheduled for Tuesday next week. Kaczyński’s announcement came after a deadline expired at midnight on Thursday for MPs to sign a pledge of loyalty to the party that included a commitment not to be members of any external political associations. That measure was aimed in particular at an association called Development Plus (Rozwój Plus) founded by Morawiecki in April.
The former prime minister had always insisted that his organisation was intended as complementary to PiS, rather than a rival to it. However, many figures in the party saw it as an attempt by Morawiecki to create a separate centre of power, and potentially to use the association as a launchpad for creating his own party ahead of the autumn 2027 parliamentary elections. The right-wing opposition PiS party has threatened disciplinary action, including exclusion from electoral lists, against dozens of its MPs who have joined a new internal group led by former PM @MorawieckiM and intended to appeal to more moderate voters https://t.co/y62Cm361U2 — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) April 17, 2026 After PiS issued a resolution on Wednesday last week requiring that its parliamentarians pledge to withdraw from any such asso…
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