Marking two years since the coalition government took office, Kaczyński said it had failed to deliver on its campaign pledges.
He accused the government of raising the value-added tax (VAT) on food, slowing investment and creating "an enormous crisis in public finances."
He also said it was "painfully failing" to fix problems in the national health service and criticised its foreign policy.
Kaczyński rejected the government's description of its first two years as "a time of progress."
“This supposed progress is best illustrated by the fact that the communist-era official Włodzimierz Czarzasty is now the Speaker of the lower house of parliament,” he told reporters.
Kaczyński’s Law and Justice party (PiS) unveiled banners to mark the government's two-year midpoint, with the next parliamentary elections set for 2027.
The banners accused the government of raising electricity prices, diverting funds from the health service and seeking to curb online freedoms through censorship.
The move came a day after government spokesman Adam Szłapka unveiled billboards touting two years of achievements.
The billboards said the government was restoring train links, unblocking in vitro fertilisation and protecting Poland’s borders, among other accomplishments.
On December 13, 2023, Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a vote of confidence in parliament for his Cabinet, which was sworn in the next day by then-President Andrzej Duda.
The Civic Coalition campaigned on a list of "100 concrete policies for 100 days." Additional pledges were included in the coalition agreement signed on November 10, 2023, by the Civic Coalition, the centre-right Poland 2050 group, the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL) and the New Left.
Key commitments included holding the previous Law and Justice government to account, restoring the rule of law, strengthening the justice system and depoliticising public media.
(pm/gs)
Source: IAR, PAP