Gowin forms new party

Deputy PM Jarosław Gowin announced the formation of his new party Alliance (Zjednoczenie) during the party’s convention on Saturday. Alliance is the result of the expansion of Gowin’s Poland Together party, which was joined by former Nowoczesna MP Zbigniew Gryglas and a number of former members of right-wing Wolność party led by controversial MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The grouping is a part of the ruling coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS). “I am very happy that you are setting up a new party that is not a result of dividing an existing group, but a result of a creative act of bringing together political circles that are closely akin to one another ideologically,” PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński said in a letter to convention participants.