Kaczyński, whose conservative party leads the opposition, argued on Monday that the presidential victory of PiS-backed nationalist Karol Nawrocki was a “red card” for Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s liberal, pro-EU coalition.
He claimed that the outcome of the presidential vote justified installing a Cabinet of nonpartisan experts to govern the country in place of Tusk's administration until the next parliamentary elections in 2027.
Mentzen, who took 14.81 percent of the vote in last month’s first round of the presidential election, responded on the social media platform X that such a government “at first glance seems to have no chance of a majority" in the 460-seat lower house.
“If Kaczyński knows more than I do and there is something to discuss, I invite him for a meeting. Let’s talk,” he wrote.
Any bid to topple Tusk's government would need the votes of at least 231 deputies. PiS holds 194 seats, while Confederation has 18, leaving the right short of a majority unless it can peel away lawmakers from centrist parties.
Nawrocki, a conservative historian, won Sunday’s runoff with 50.89 percent of the vote against 49.11 percent for liberal candidate Rafał Trzaskowski, dealing a setback to Tusk’s pro-EU reform agenda.
Tusk has reacted by announcing he will seek a vote of confidence in parliament to reaffirm support for his four-party coalition.
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Source: PAP, IAR, Onet, Reuters, The Guardian