Poland to hold early elections [Coalition kaput]

CNN ^ | Sat August 11, 2007 | Reuters

[wolf78]

WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he expected early elections in the autumn after his conservative party gave him the green light on Saturday to push for a snap vote to end weeks of political turmoil.

Early elections have been on the cards in the biggest ex-communist EU member after bitter fighting within the coalition formed by the ruling Kaczynski twins, a far-right party and a rural leftist faction.

"Elections could be on October 21," Kaczynski told a news conference. "In November at the latest."

[wolf78]

Currect polling data: Civic Platform (PO) 34%, Law and Justice Party (PiS) 22%, Left and Democracy (LiD) 10%, League for Self-Defence (LiS) 10%, Peasant’s Party (PSL) 2%.

[Malesherbes]

I know there is bad blood between the Kaczynski brothers and Civic Platform’s Donald Tusk, but I wonder whether a “Grand Coalition” might be in the cards after the forthcoming election.