According to vice premier Roman Giertych, a situation where President Lech Kaczyński is asking Donald Tusk of PO (Civic Platform) for permission to hold early elections, is 'a paradox' and will lead to liberals and ex-communists regaining power in Poland.

Giertych, the leader of the junior coalition partner, League of Polish Families (LPR), has stayed within the government and wants it to continue, while the other junior partner, Self defense left after its leader, Andzrej Lepper was sacked by the prime minister over alleged involvement in a corruption scandal.

In Giertych’s opinion a meeting between Kaczynski and leader of the opposition, Donald Tusk, means that Law and Justice has given up on building the ‘Fourth Republic’, by which he means the counter-revolution which was supposed to shake Poland up and rebuild it after what he sees as years of corruption since the fall of communism in 1989.

LPR’s leader, on Polish radio this morning, was referring to the meeting of President Kaczyński with the PO leader Donald Tusk yesterday. The politician were in conversation for four hours.

According to Giertych, earlier elections mean that liberals and post-communists will come back into power.