The Polish Right, a new party created by former Speaker of Parliament Marek Jurek, can count on 2,000 activists and enough MPs to form a political club in parliament.As many as ten Law and Justice MPs may join the former member of Law and Justice in the coming weeks, according to unsourced information published by "Życie Warszawy".
That would mean that the party of the former Speaker of the Parliament could set up a parliamentary club very soon.
‘It is a matter of weeks. First, the MPs have to finish off their business at Law and Justice (PiS) – said the newspaper’s source. The parliamentarians leaving Law and Justice do not want to reveal their identities yet, but they are among the 57 names of the MPs who voted for a complete ban on abortion’.
‘We want to avoid being pressurised or given promises to stay with the Law and Justice’, reveals an anonymous MP who intends to join the new party.
Artur Zawisza – one of the MPs to leave with Jurek, does not deny, either, that talks with the MPs have been underway:
‘And not only with the MPs. A few senators are also interested in the switch’ –the anonymous source said to the daily.
It takes at least 15 MPs to establish a parliamentary club.
Marek Jurek resigned his position as Speaker, and left Law and Justice, after being on the losing side of a vote in parliament to put a ‘pro life’ clause into the Polish Constitution.
(mj)