Via the BBC: Polish ruling coalition collapses

Poland’s ruling conservatives are setting about forming a new government after PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he would sack his left-wing deputy.

The deputy in question is Andrzej Lepper of the Self-Defence Party.

The ability of Kaczynski’s Law and Justice Party (PiS) to govern has been problematic from the get-go when it failed to form the expected coalition with the Civic Platform. Since winning a plurality of seats in the Sejm in 2024, the PiS has had two Primer Ministers and now it moving on to its third cabinet (having governed a minority and then have formed a coalition with several small parties, including Lepper’s earlier this year).
Now we move to the next bit, which may include early elections:

Mr Kaczynski said he would try to assemble a new parliamentary majority with breakaway members of Mr Lepper’s Self-Defence Party and another small rural-based group, the Polish Peasant’s Party.

Early elections, probably to be held in November, would be the only solution if that failed, he said.

But fresh elections are unlikely to solve Poland’s political crisis, says our correspondent.

According to surveys, none of the major parties seems capable of winning a majority.

As a side note, I would note again that Solidarity’s support for the PiS government led Lech Walesa to quit the party–which should give some indication of the current tensions in Polish politics.