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Poland's Coalition Government Continues Despite Firing Of Polish Deputy Minister

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Poland's Andrzej Lepper announced at a press conference that his political party, Samoobrona, will remain in the Government Coalition even though he has been fired as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture. Polish analysts are of the opinion that his party members wanted to keep their positions in the Government and put pressure on him to keep the party in the Coalition.

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Earlier in the day there was a fracture in Samoobrona as Ryszard Czarnecki was banned from the party because he wanted the party to stay in the Coalition without Lepper. Six other MP's left Samoobrona to join him. See Samoobrona chce wyrzucic Czarneckiego

Lepper said that his party would stay in coalition conditional on evidence against him showing that he was involved in the corruption related to rezoning agricultural land be presented to him by Friday.

The Polish Parliament is going on vacation so no action on the SLD motion to dissolve the Parliament will take place until mid September.

Despite the turmoil, there is too much at stake for the members of the current Government to lead themselves to early elections either now or in September. See Early Polish Elections Are Unlikely In Spite Of Poland's Difficulties