Following Lepper’s dismissal, the Polish Prime Minister and leader of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kazcynski, dismissed Janusz Kaczmarek, the interior minister, as well as Jaroslaw Maryec, the head of Poland’s central Bureau of Investigation (CBS) and Roman Giertych, deputy minister and education minister, from their posts.

On 13 August, Kaczynski removed all ministers belonging to the Self-Defense party and the Catholic-nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR), replacing them with PiS loyalists and non-party experts, writes The Economist.

Left with a minority government Kaczynski is seeking a parliamentary election two years ahead of schedule. Lawmakers voted on 7 September on whether to dissolve parliament, triggering an election — possibly in October, according to The International Herald Tribune.

The crisis deepened when the International Security Agency (ABW) detained Kaczmarek. Kaczmarek, had “allegedly abused his position by sharing state secrets with one of Poland's richest businessmen, Ryszard Krauze. Both men were charged last week with jeopardizing the case against Andrzej Lepper,” reports The International Herald Tribune.

As Professor Lena Kolarska-Bobinska, head of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs (ISP), told Deutsche Presse-Agentur “Kaczynski has been engaged all the time in a fight for power and domination. He wanted to centralize everything because of his lack of trust and this centralization created a situation of very poor management in the public administration.”