MEP Michał Kobosko has resigned from Poland 2050, citing questionable party processes and internal power struggles.
Resignation Announcement
On Monday, February 16, Michał Kobosko announced he had resigned his membership in the Poland 2050 party led by Szymon Hołowni. In his statement, he noted that this party was the only one he had belonged to and had actively helped create.
Election Success and Subsequent Problems
“I believed that this party would occupy a stable and strong position in the center of the Polish political scene, that it would wedge into the very entrenched PO-PiS system,” wrote the MEP. He acknowledged their measurable success in the October 15, 2023 elections through a coalition with PSL, bringing strong, fresh representation to the Sejm and Senate, and taking important positions in government and parliament.
However, Kobosko criticized what followed, citing “embarrassing and highly suspicious events on the path to electing the party chairperson, scandalous and illegal attempts to sabotage the party’s electoral process, unacceptable blackmail during the electoral process and threats to withdraw several MPs by the former party chairman.”
Internal Party Crisis
Kobosko also pointed to a massive outpouring of hate and threats directed at an MP who “dared to reveal an internal coup planned for early January.” He also considered a personal attack by Szymon Hołowni against himself because he “dared to meet with the prime minister” as a less serious but still noteworthy fact.
The MEP stated that the crisis in Poland 2050 did not begin “yesterday or a week ago” but already in 2024 when he resigned as a member of the party’s national board, with Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz taking over as first vice-chairperson.
Governance and Financial Concerns
“From that moment, there was an actual privatization of the party by the minister lady and her circle of collaborators,” Kobosko described. According to him, the party’s finances became highly opaque, with information reaching them about tens of thousands of zlotys being paid monthly to unknown, unverifiable purposes. Attempts to conduct a financial audit proved ineffective, and subsequent doubts were ignored and trivialized.
“The party’s communication began to be an exclusive tool for promoting the actions of Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz and often incomprehensible, strongly socialist program ideas of the Minister that were not consulted with anyone in the party,” he added. “The National Board, an organ responsible for managing the organization, was incapacitated, decisions were made outside the normal and acceptable procedure.”
