Adam Bielan, an MEP who left the major opposition Law and Justice to form the fledgling Poland Comes First splinter group, has publicly admitted that his exit from Jaroslaw Kaczysnki’s party was a mistake.

The comments come after the Law and Justice convention held at the weekend. “This is the Law and Justice that I would have liked to create,” Bielan (pictured right) told RMF radio, Monday morning.

Asked whether he would leave Law and Justice given a second chance, Bielan said “no, history has showed that it was a mistake.”

Adam Bielan still remains an MEP, although now independent after he was ejected from the ranks of Poland Comes First in March for allegedly retaining his sympathy to the major opposition Law and Justice.

Bielan, who was behind Lech Kaczynski’s presidential campaign in 2005, told RMF radio that he does not wish to return to Law and Justice as he had only just left Poland Comes First, although he is happy with the outcome of the this weekend’s congress.

“I was in Law and Justice for ten years, so if I would discount the party from my political views, I would be lying,” Bielan said.

During Monday’s interview, Adam Bielan said that Law and Justice has changed since the creation of Poland Comes First, as the party now has to fight for its electorate. “In a certain sense, Poland Comes First was a positive catalyst for changes in Law and Justice,” opined Bielan.

According to Bielan, Poland Comes First was meant is kowtowing to the policy ideas of Civic Platform’s Grzegorz Schetyna, who is currently parliamentary speaker.

“Poland Comes First was supposed to be greater competition to Donald Tusk’s government, but has instead become an addition to [Schetyna’s] fraction within Civic Platform,” Bielan suggested, adding that Poland Comes First’s leader, Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska has “very good” relations with Schetyna. (jb)