Pawel Poncyljusz. Photo: east newsPoncyljusz announced his membership of the ‘Poland is the most important’ association, registered this week in Warsaw, alongside 14 other politicians after a split on policy and tactics within Law and Justice, the largest opposition party in Poland.
Though formally still a member of the party, the "umbilical cord is cut” he told Polish Radio this morning, as Law and Justice is no longer able to form an effective opposition against the Civic Platform-led government, he said.
Asked if the ‘Poland is the most important’ association is the prelude to forming a new political party, Poncyljusz, a former prominent member of Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s presidential election campaign team, said “Let‘s see how it goes. Not everyone in the association may want to join a party. It‘s not automatic. Let‘s just see how it goes as a social movement for now.”
He said his thoughts on moving beyond Law and Justice were crystallised after the murder of a party activist in Lodz, which was the product of the toxic atmosphere of political antagonism which had built up between opposition and governing parties, said Poncyljusz.
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