Mateusz Morawiecki announces he will run in the elections on his own with the new Development Plus party

Mateusz Morawiecki, in his entry on the X platform, emphasized that "Rozwój Plus is a movement that is supposed to change Poland and deal with people's issues, and the party is only a tool, not an end in itself."

"For us, the party is only a tool, not an end in itself. Next year we will run in the elections independently, but today we are proposing serious solutions to the biggest challenges Poland faces and working close to the people. It was, is and will be," he added.

When is the new batch?

At the beginning of August, the former prime minister announced that he would establish a political party no later than October 15; The Development Plus convention is planned for this day.

Earlier, the Polish Press Agency learned from sources close to the management of the Rozwoju Plus association that the formal establishment of the new political party of former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will not take place at the congress on October 15, as previously announced, but "probably in a few months."

A split in PiS

The creation of Rozwoju Plus was related to the crisis within the Law and Justice party. At the end of July, the deadline for President Jarosław Kaczyński's ultimatum expired, which ordered parliamentarians to resign from membership in external political associations under the threat of expulsion from the party.

Politicians gathered around Mateusz Morawiecki (over 40 people) did not submit the required declarations, concluding that they had not resigned from PiS membership, but were only implementing a new social initiative. Ultimately, after referring the cases to the disciplinary spokesman, these politicians decided that they were no longer members of PiS and at the end of July they registered their own parliamentary club.