How can Poland’s Law and Justice party revive its fortunes?

After narrowly losing power in October’s parliamentary elections, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) has spent the last four months battling the reforms of Donald Tusk’s ruling coalition. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who co-founded PiS in 2001 and has served as its chairman since 2003, must now adapt to his role in opposition. On Saturday, Kaczynski said that he would seek another term as the leader of PiS, but this won’t be an easy task. After the excitement of the last few weeks, which has included showdowns with the government over its takeover of public media and the arrests (and subsequent presidential pardon) of two opposition figures, some members of PiS’s leadership have begun to do some soul searching, and not all of them see a future with Kaczynski in charge.

In the last few weeks, a couple of narratives have emerged about what went wrong last autumn, and what needs to be done to get PiS winning elections again.