PJN on brink of collapse

10th June 2011

The fate of Poland’s youngest political party hung in the balance after its leader quit amid a swirl of rumours that she and other party members were contemplating defecting to the governing Civic Platform party.

Joanna Kluzik-Rostowska allegedly stepped down from the leadership of the Poland Is The Most Important (PJN) party to take what she described as a “holiday” less than a year after she and a handful of other politicians broke away from Law and Justice (PiS) in a bid to form a new party offering conservative values with a more liberal face.

To make matters worse for the still fledgling PJN, Jan Filip Libicki became the first MP to actually jump ship, saying that it had fai ...