Belka still batting on sticky wicket despite SdPl's pledge of support in fall vote

Should this happen, Belka's cabinet could hope to win 215 votes, which means that they would still be 16 votes short of the figure they need to win a majority. The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) tried to renegotiate the latter's support for the former, but the PSL (with 37 votes at its disposal) reaffirmed that it does not intend to change it stance and will continue to vote against Belka's cabinet. Subsequently, the PSL has entered into negotiations with Law and Justice (PiS) with a view to proposing a new candidate to head a provisional government that would stay on until early elections in the fall. Yesterday, Janusz Wojciechowski, the head of PSL, named Andrzej Zoll, the commissioner for civil rights protection, as a potential candidate. However, Zoll has not been officially nominated and no one yet knows whether or not he has any intention of becoming prime minister at all. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 3) J.J.