The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the determinants influencing the use of presidential vetoes in Poland, with a particular focus on the role of the anti-pluralist attitude of government and intra-executive identity differences, i.e. how different the president’s political views are from the views of the prime minister. We propose an empirical framework to investigate the significant determinants impacting the probability of veto usage. Our paper is based on the theoretical and empirical framework introduced by Köker (2017). The dataset comprises 319 monthly observations spanning from October 1997 to July 2024. The empirical results emphasize the role of cohabitation and ideological differences between the president and the governing party. We argue that these findings contribute to the discourse on the effectiveness of the presidential veto as a mechanism of checks and balances, highlighting that veto decisions may result from various pressures related not only to the individual characteristics of the president or the content of the bill, but also to the current political landscape.