Polish opposition expels 40 lawmakers who formed breakaway caucus led by ex-PM Morawiecki

Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support. Poland’s largest opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has expelled 40 of its lawmakers in response to them forming a breakaway parliamentary caucus led by PiS deputy leader and former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The decision formalises a split that began last month, when Morawiecki and his supporters refused to resign from a political association they had formed and sign a pledge of loyalty to PiS. They represented a more moderate faction that had long been unhappy with