Vice‑Chairman of Law and Justice and the party’s prime ministerial candidate Przemysław Czarnek has been touring Poland for several weeks, meeting voters as part of the “Awakening. Time for the Polish Voice!” series. During the meetings proposals for changes that would come into effect if PiS won the next elections were discussed. The same was true during a meeting in Gdańsk. Among the proposals were those concerning lower taxes.
Will Poland exit the ETS system?
One of the main proposals presented by the PiS politician is to block the EU climate fee. As Przemysław Czarnek stated during the meeting, this fee drains citizens’ pockets and destroys the competitiveness of Polish business.
“Forget the ETS. With one law in the Polish Sejm we will exempt all our companies from any fees for CO2 emission permits and effectively lower bills. We are the hosts of Poland. We want to govern Poland in a Polish way” – Przemysław Czarnek announced at the Gdańsk meeting.
This is not the only promise the PiS prime ministerial candidate made. The next is lowering electricity and heating bills.
“Today, solidarity is demanded by retirees, large families, entrepreneurs and hospitals. We need a solidarity policy that will bring down electricity and heating prices by several dozen percent. We can no longer gouge Poles” – the vice‑chairman of Law and Justice said.
KO remains the leader in the support poll
Although Przemysław Czarnek has been meeting Poles for weeks, his party’s ratings have not taken off. PiS still trails the Civic Coalition in polls. Donald Tusk’s party leads despite the scandal at Warsaw’s South Hospital.
The latest IBRiS poll for Polsat News shows that if parliamentary elections were held now, the Civic Coalition could count on 28% support, a drop of 1.3 percentage points from the rating before the Warsaw hospital scandal involving a KO politician. PiS took second place with 24.1% support, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared to the previous survey. The third place went to the Confederation, which would receive 13.7% of respondents’ votes, an increase of 0.3 percentage points.
Support also rose by 1 percentage point for the Polish Crown Confederation, which achieved 9% in the latest poll, and for the Together party by 0.3 percentage points to 3.2%, and for the New Left by 0.1 percentage points to 8.2%. Declines were noted for the Polish People's Party from 4.2% to 4.1%, and for Poland 2025 from 1.5% to 0.8%. The final 0.1% support was held by the Centre.
The study was conducted on 24–27 June 2026 on a nationwide sample of 1,000 people.
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