The remains of the former Polska 2050 caucus — also numbering 15 MPs — side with Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the minister for EU funds and regional policy. Following her win on Jan. 31, the party leadership voted to freeze personnel changes to de-escalate tensions before a March convention. Their former colleagues called the move an attempt to silence them.
The turmoil also split Polska 2050’s representation in the Senate and in the European Parliament after MEP Michał Kobosko left the party Monday.
Polska 2050 has been in deep crisis since Hołownia’s disastrous 2025 presidential campaign, in which he won less than 5 percent support and placed behind even far-right maverick Grzegorz Braun. Hołownia’s failed presidential bid also ended Polska 2050’s alliance with the Polish People’s Party inside the Tusk coalition.
In the previous 2020 presidential election, by contrast, Hołownia had won nearly 14 percent and capitalized on that result to found Polska 2050.
The party, Hołownia said at the time, was a third option amid the ongoing feud between Civic Coalition and Law and Justice that has dominated Polish politics for over two decades.
Polska 2050 was at one point neck-and-neck in the polls with Civic Coalition, but fell back after Tusk re-entered Polish politics following a prominent hiatus as head of the European Council.
Hołownia slammed the MPs who left Polska 2050, saying “they hate” the party’s new leader.