Kalinowski steps down from helm of Polish Peasants Party

"We must not allow the government with Civic Platform to put their hands into the pockets of farmers," Kalinowski said. He also called Andrzej Lepper "a smart manipulator of people's poverty and despair." The PSL's new president, Janusz Wojciechowski, who has also been dubbed a bad orator, has expressed a willingness to form a coalition with Self-Defense and the Polish Families League. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 3) M.M.