Polish Ruling Party Tests Coalition Breakup (The Wall Street Journal, 2010)
On Thursday, Poland’s acting president and Civic Platform presidential candidate Bronislaw Komorowski surprised markets and his party’s junior coalition partner by proposing Marek Belka as the candidate for the central bank head. The unexpected (and un-consulted) candidacy is likely to be just the first attempt by ruling party Civic Platform to annoy and antagonize the Peasants’ Party, its agrarian-focused partner in government. It could very well be followed by a series of intra-coalition fights eventually prompting parliamentary election to be held half a year early—in the spring of 2011 instead of the fall of that year.
The link address is: http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2010/05/28/polish-ruling-party-tests-coalition-breakup/
