Government still a minority despite coalition agreement

According to the agreement, the Self-Defense leader, Andrzej Lepper, is to become Minister of Agriculture and Anna Kalata will become Minister of Labour and Social Policy. Self-Defense will probably get the Ministry of Construction as well. Jaroslaw Kaczynski said yesterday that Boguslaw Kowalski from the Kolo Narodowe (National Association), which was established on Thursday and unites 5 ex-LPR MPs, will also become a minister. The coalition gives the government the support of 218 MPs. The Polish Peasants' Party (PSL) refused to join the government so the coalition is still a minority one. PiS wants to look for the 13 MPs that it needs to get a parliamentary majority in the now weakened LPR (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1, 6, 31) A.M.