Polska 2050 set for two deputy minister posts in Tusk's government

Two posts for Polska 2050

RMF FM reported that Łukasz Osmalak and Bartosz Romowicz, both Polska 2050 MPs, are set to become deputy ministers in Donald Tusk's government, and Interia confirmed the report. The arrangement was reportedly agreed in talks between Tusk and Szymon Hołownia, the deputy marshal of the Sejm. Osmalak is to become an under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure, while Romowicz will join the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. Minister of Infrastructure Dariusz Klimczak told TOK FM that he is preparing a request to the prime minister to appoint Osmalak. The nominations are expected to be signed in the second half of November 2026.

Why Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz left

Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz resigned as minister of funds and regional policy in late October. In a social media post she said the reason was votes by coalition members against the bill that would have abolished term limits for mayors, village heads and city presidents. The Sejm rejected those changes. Reports said she had hoped to strengthen her position in the government, but Tusk backed Andrzej Domański for deputy prime minister instead. She summed up her decision in one line:

“Values are more important to me than posts.”

Bartol takes over the funds ministry

Tusk announced on 27 October that he would nominate Agnieszka Bartol to lead the funds ministry, and some reports give her first name as Anna. Bartol has been Poland's permanent representative to the European Union since 2024, and she will join the Council of Ministers only after President Karol Nawrocki swears her in. Jan Szyszko, a Polska 2050 deputy minister in the same ministry, also left the government after saying he no longer agreed with his party's political line. Describing how decisions were made, Szyszko said:

“For the first two years we somehow worked together. The last year, decisions were made in a group of four or five ministers the prime minister liked.”

He added that the number of matters that could be settled within the government fell from day to day. Commentators linked the new posts to Hołownia's conduct during the police raid on the Constitutional Tribunal on 30 October, when he did not criticise Tusk and did not go to the court building although PiS MPs had urged him to. Radio Wnet columnist Łukasz Jankowski wrote on X, ironically, that Hołownia had secured two posts for his most critical MPs.

Party leadership vote ahead

Polska 2050 also faces an election for a new party leader, which RMF FM reports is planned for early December 2026. Hołownia does not intend to seek the leadership again, and Paweł Śliz, until recently head of the parliamentary club, is most likely to be the only candidate. Śliz would take over a party whose MPs are now being placed in the government. The nominations and the leadership vote are therefore two steps in the same reshuffle of the party's influence.