Poland’s Conservatives agree to meet with PiS but rule out coalition

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Poland’s ruling PiS party invited all other parliamentary parties to meet and discuss potential coalitions, with Confederation being the only party that has so far accepted even though it rules out governing with others.

The Confederation party was initially going to reject the offer, but the party decided to send its delegation to talks with PiS’ Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, even if some of the key figures doubted if it made any sense.

“There’s nothing to talk about. Mateusz Morawiecki is a completely unreliable man,” Sławomir Mentzen, the party’s co-leader, told Radio ZET.

One way or another, the Confederation insists it does not intend to form a coalition government with PiS. Confederation’s delegates will come to the prime minister’s office “to deliver a clear message to PM Morawiecki (…): this is the end of your power,” the group said in the official statement.

“We believe that Poland deserves a truly right-wing government,” the Confederates added, criticising Morawiecki for having proven that he “does not intend to pursue conservative, free-market policies or policies consistent with the Polish national interest.”

Morawiecki will propose the composition of the new government on Monday – even though the chance to win a confd, with no parliamentary majority, its chances to win a vote of confidence is illusionary, which means that in the next step, it will be the parliament that selects the government.

This will most likely result in the election of recently re-elecDonald Tusk for prime minister, with his three-bloc coalition, consisting of KO, the centrist Third Road alliance (EPP/Renew) and the Left (S&D). The president has no right to reject the government elected by the parliament.

The Confederation declares it will neither support Morawiecki’s nor Tusk’s government.

(Aleksandra Krzysztoszek | Euractiv.pl)