Kaczyński recommends Patryk Jaki for second ECR co-chair term in European Parliament

Kaczyński's recommendation

PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński said on 4 November 2026 that he had recommended Patryk Jaki, a PiS deputy leader and member of the European Parliament, for a second term as co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group. Kaczyński announced the decision on X the same day. PiS is a member of the ECR group, which Jaki co-chairs with Italian MEP Nicola Procaccini. In his post, Kaczyński wrote that Jaki had achieved considerable results in building the group and in increasing its numbers.

“Patryk Jaki achieved considerable success in working for the ECR Group, contributing to its expansion and growth in numbers.”

What Jaki points to

Jaki told the European Parliament on the same day that he was ready to continue as co-chair. He said the group had grown steadily until it became the third-largest faction in the chamber, level with the Patriots for Europe. Among the group's achievements he cited the adoption by Parliament of rules easing bureaucratic burdens for small and medium-sized enterprises under climate legislation, new regulations on migration, and the award of the Sakharov Prize to Andrzej Poczobut. He described the first half of the current parliamentary term as good for the group.

“I am very glad about this recommendation. Now, of course, the group has to decide on it in a vote.”

Background to the post

Rzeczpospolita reports that Jaki took up the co-chair role in 2024, replacing Joachim Brudziński in that post, and links the change to the agreement on merging PiS and Suwerenna Polska. NIEZALEZNA.PL gives December 2024 as the month he was elected co-chair of the group. Procaccini, the group's other co-chair, is described as an Italian MEP from the Brothers of Italy party, whose leader is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Constitutional Tribunal dispute and the December vote

In recent days both co-chairs issued a joint communiqué on events at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal. Jaki accused the government of Donald Tusk of using the police to forcibly install people posing as judges in the independent tribunal. The communiqué said Tusk wanted to take control of the tribunal to remove a key check on his government's power. It also criticised the European Union, which often invokes the rule of law, for remaining silent while Poland's constitutional order was under attack. The ECR group will vote on its co-chairs for the second half of the current parliamentary term in December 2026.