Polish newspaper Wprost reported that Mateusz Morawiecki could agree with Giorgia Meloni to replace her as head of the European Conservatives and Reformists party. However, according to the latest report by Fakt, nothing has been decided yet Euractive.
“Negotiations are ongoing. Nothing has been decided yet,” a source close to Morawiecki told Fakt. He also said that Meloni is “reluctant to step down” as European Commission president, and that the former Polish prime minister is currently working to convince him.
According to Euractiv, if Morawiecki wins the presidency of the European Council, it will strengthen his party's position on the European right after it lost in 2023 to a center-left coalition led by Donald Tusk, the former president of the European Council.
The European Council presidency may be a consolation for Morawiecki if he is not chosen as his Law and Justice party's candidate in next year's Polish presidential election.
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With President Andrzej Duda set to serve his second term in 2025 and barred from running for re-election under the Polish constitution, the PiS is looking for a new candidate, and Polish media say Morawiecki is one possible candidate.
Other potential presidential candidates for the party include MEPs Patrick Jacqui and Tobias Puszczyński, former defence minister Mariusz Puszczyński, and former education minister Przemysław Czarnik, who was responsible for controversial school reform plans.
Buczynski, who was a local politician until he won a seat in the European Parliament in June, is the new favourite of PiS MP Jaroslaw Kaczynski, while Jaki, Blaszczak and Czarnik are popular with PiS voters.
The coalition's candidate has also not been announced, and Donald Tusk has ruled out running for president. He lost the 2005 presidential election to the PiS candidate at the time, Kaczyński's twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, who died in a tragic plane crash in 2010.
