The Sejm rejected lex Kaczyński. The PiS club broke

Work on the project started on Monday, but was quickly completed as government representatives were not present at the meeting of the Health Committee. On Tuesday, Deputy Minister Piotr Bromber (previously tested for infection after Waldemar Kraska and Adam Niedzielski's security officers had a positive result) showed up.

The meeting of the Health Committee started at 15.00 and the opposition lost the vote for another postponement with one vote - the result was 20:20 by the vote of the chairman, Tomasz Latos. Later, from the point of view of Law and Justice, it was only worse. First, the commission stopped its work so that the Seym could resume its deliberations. During this break, during the plenary session, Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński went to the rostrum twice to personally support the solutions proposed (by himself, by the way).

The discussion both in the plenary and during the first reading was extremely stormy, and Kaczyński's appearance on the rostrum (including ignoring the break announced a moment earlier by the Speaker of the Sejm) was perceived as an expression of determination and refusal to accept the arguments with which the PiS president tried to convince members of his own party - that the law is defective and in the Sejm, due to the alliance of opposition clubs, demanding tough solutions in the fight against the pandemic, with the Confederation and part of the United Right, whose voting against Lex Kaczyński was completely differently motivated, is doomed to failure.

And it was with such a disaster that voting ended. The opposition voted united as rarely, and the PiS club broke. 152 MPs (and the unaffiliated Łukasz Mejza) voted against the rejection of the bill. Together with the opposition, 24 PiS MPs voted, most of them from Solidarity Poland (including Janusz Kowalski and Maria Kurowska), but also Anna Siarkowska. As many as 37 MPs abstained (including Jadwiga Emilewicz) and 16 (including Zbigniew Ziobro) did not vote at all.

The opposition triumphed, stressing in the first comments that the government majority had ceased to exist. It is rather purely wishful thinking, but certainly not only PiS, but also Jarosław Kaczyński personally suffered on Tuesday, with the collapse of Lex Kaczyński, a huge image loss. Never in the past seven years had such a large group of members of the parliamentary group rebelled against his explicit demands.