Marek Migalski,the MEP expelled from the European Conservatives and Reformists delegation in the European Parliament, writes on his blog today that he “regrets the decision” and the move will “weaken the group”.

Migalksi was expelled from the ECR after Law and Justice MEPs – who make up the Polish membership of the group – reacted angrily to the MEPs criticisms of party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

"Law and Justice and the ECR have lost a vote which at times has been decisive,” he writes of his dismissal. “Many votes [in the EP] are decided by just one vote.”

The ECR is a breakaway group from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. Law and Justice’s MEPs joined the UK Conservative Party and other right wing groupings to fight, what they see, as the EPP’s pro-federalist stance.

Migalksi writes on his blog that his decision to criticize Kaczynski’s aggressive style of leadership of Law and Justice, in the form of an open letter on bis blog, “can be considered fair or not, but you cannot treat it as a lack of interest for the welfare of the Law and Justice party. My purpose was to open a discussion [on the future direction of the party] so it can become electable and win the fight against [the ruling] Civic Platform ."

Migalksi has written that the failure of Law and Justice to win any elections since 2005 was mainly Jarosalw Kaczynski’s fault and will lead “"straight to electoral defeat in parliamentary and municipal elections”. (pg)