There is no hiding the fact that Mateusz Morawiecki has recently distanced himself from PiS decision-makers, writes the Salon24 news portal.
He is supposedly still the deputy head of the party, but he is increasingly farther away from party leader Jarosław Kaczyński. The former golden child and hope for a European opening for PiS is slowly starting to go his own way, a source told the portal.
“He is talking about (leaving) with his closest circle. The information that has already appeared, that he will leave and establish a new formation with Andrzej Duda, is not made up. It looks like he is waiting for the right moment to say ‘I’m leaving,'” a person associated with Mateusz Morawiecki’s circle revealed.
“Scary as hell. Where will he go? There have already been those who left PiS and then returned with their tails between their legs. Examples include Zbigniew Ziobro and Jacek Kurski,” said the PiS politician.
Morawiecki does not hide in private conversations that he would like to be the PiS candidate for the president of Poland. The money he spends on social media is to keep him afloat as one of the most recognizable politicians of the United Right camp. The problem is the core of PiS considers him an enemy.
Almost from the very beginning, Morawiecki has been fought by the old, most loyal companions of Jarosław Kaczyński. And this, paradoxically, made him untouchable. Jarosław Kaczyński liked the fact that Morawiecki had no influence in the party, was unable to build his own clique, and was at the mercy or disgrace of the chairman himself.
But the longer PiS ruled, the more Kaczyński lost his way. Morawiecki slowly began to outplay him. Month by month, he began to win over young, but above all educated PiS politicians to his side. He quickly built his own small faction, which he used in this year’s parliamentary elections, writes Salon 24.
The PiS source also told the portal that even Jarosław himself appreciates the cleverness of the way Morawiecki is trying to build his position within the party. His people are in Brussels today, and the chairman’s people are in Poland. “If Jarosław Kaczyński thought that Mateusz does not have his own faction, then since the elections to the European Parliament he has known that he was wrong.”
“Mateusz has his own ambitions. He wants to play for the highest stakes, but in PiS he currently has more enemies than friends,” the politician adds.
Mateusz Morawiecki was considered an unsuitable piece of the puzzle from the very beginning of his adventure with PiS. When he became the minister of development in the autumn of 2015, old PiS politicians swallowed this decision as a whim of the boss. The former banker was given a ministry that PiS de facto knew nothing about. He was supposed to prepare an economic program for the party that would convince businesses to join Jarosław Kaczyński’s group. Morawiecki talked a lot and promised a lot. But the end of his planning was like the end of the Izera, the first Polish electric car. It is still talked about today, and it still does not exist.
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When Kaczyński decided to change the position of prime minister in 2017 and replaced Beata Szydło with Morawiecki, red flags went up in the old guard of PiS. Since then, Morawiecki has had more enemies than friends. Jacek Kurski, the all-powerful former president of TVP, conspired against him, as did Mariusz Kamiński, the head of the Polish secret services and former head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA), with Kaczyński’s consent.
Morawiecki, in turn, was after both of them. Although he won against Kurski, he never managed to remove Kamiński. Morawiecki came closest to this goal in 2018. However, Kaczyński did not agree to Kamiński’s dismissal. During the PiS era, the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration quickly concluded an agreement with another enemy of Morawiecki, Zbigniew Ziobro.
The services subordinate to them were looking for dirt on Morawiecki’s people. This is how the investigation into the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves began. It was not about hunting down criminals — they were after Morawiecki.
“They were hunting down Morawiecki. They left the evidence to their successors, and now they can say that it was not us but the Civic Platform (who is after him),” the source told Salon 24.
