Mentzen appealed the November court ruling, but his allies registered The Empire Strikes Back in January as a backup plan, opting not to wait for the process to conclude. At a private congress on Saturday, delegates decided to merge the two entities, moving New Hope’s structures and assets to the new party.
Confederation officials have been open about their objectives.
“We can say that we outsmarted the system. It’s quite an original solution,” Wojciech Machulski, Confederation spokesperson and head of The Empire Strikes Back, told Polish outlet Zero.pl.
Machulski described the new party as a “technical” solution to ensure continuity if the court decision stands. The merged entity is expected to revert to the name New Hope.
With elections approaching in the second half of 2027, Confederation is polling at 13 percent, behind Jarosław Kaczyński’s opposition nationalist Law and Justice (26 percent) and Donald Tusk’s ruling center-right Civic Coalition (34 percent), according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls.
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