Conflict over division of ministries between PiS and PO

Yesterday, Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (PiS) and PO's candidate for Deputy PM, Jan Rokita, were supposed to present the progress of the two parties' negotiations concerning the formation of the new government to the public, but their joint press conference was cancelled. Rokita and Marcinkiewicz could not come to an agreement concerning the distribution of the ministerial posts among PO and PiS. The bone of contention was PiS's proposition that PO take the economic ministries, and Law and Justice takes the Interior and Justice Ministries, general prosecutor, and special forces coordinator. Rokita did not want to agree on this, claiming that all these ministries in the hands of PiS would leave ample space for an abuse of power. PO's candidate for Interior Minister is Rokita himself. The party stated that the choice of Rokita for the ministry will be "A test of PiS' good will." Apart from that, Donald Tusk attenuated his stand concerning becoming the Sejm Speaker and said "It is possible." (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 4, Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4) A.F.  H