• Polish PM wants elections soon
  • 09.08.2007
“I’m all for conducting a general election soon,” said PM Jarosław Kaczyński at a press conference in Gdańsk. “If there is no majority [for the government in parliament], elections are inevitable,” he added

He also said that his party (Law and Justice) PiS’s political council will make the decision about the elections. “The self-dissolution of parliament without a decision made by PiS is impossible,” stressed Mr. Kaczyński.

The PM didn’t want to specify which date of elections he is supporting. “But I am for elections soon. There’s no point in prolonging this situation,” he assessed.

Jarosław Kaczyński also criticized the opposition by saying that in other parts of the world in such situations as the one in Poland, minority governments are viable. “But you need a reliable opposition to do that,” he said.

Kaczynski’s Law and Justice lost its majority in parliament when one of the junior coalition partners, Self defense, withdrew from voting agreements and obligations after it’s leader, Andrzej Lepper, was dismissed from the cabinet on suspicion of corruption.