Former President Bronisław Komorowski criticised the current President, Karol Nawrocki. He claimed that Nawrocki had assumed the role of “total opposition”, a label once used for politicians of the Civic Platform (PO) during the PiS government. And these words come from the same Komorowski who, throughout his entire term, signed almost everything that the governments of Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz placed on his desk.
President Karol Nawrocki is being attacked by those currently in power, who call him a “veto machine”, because he is exercising his prerogative and refusing to sign certain bills. These make up only a small portion of the total, yet it was enough to launch a wave of criticism against the head of state. Today, unexpectedly, a former president joined in.
“Karol Nawrocki is blocking the government’s initiatives too often. He has taken on the role of total opposition”, said Bronisław Komorowski in an interview with Super Express.
Bronisław Komorowski ostro ocenia aktywność @NawrockiKn . W rozmowie z „Super Expressem” były prezydent zarzuca obecnej głowie państwa, że działając poprzez kolejne weta, zachowuje się jak „opozycja totalna”, zamiast jak reprezentant całego narodu. Dodaje, że @prezydentpl… pic.twitter.com/ymCyvSgndC
— Super Express (@se_pl) December 7, 2025
The Total Opposition Really Existed
With these words, the former president used a term that, between 2015 and 2023, was applied to politicians from the party he himself comes from – the Civic Platform (PO). At that time, PO politicians, now Civic Coalition (KO), opposed literally everything proposed by the PiS government, while simultaneously becoming quite irritated whenever the word “totality” was used in reference to them.
Those currently in power seem to long for exactly the kind of president Komorowski was – one who, throughout his entire term (2010-2015), when the PO-PSL coalition governed, vetoed only four bills. As we can see, despite such statistics, Bronisław Komorowski has become the chief critic of the current president. At the same time, he admitted with unusual candour – “the total opposition really did exist”.
