PiS ready to form a gov't - but only after Presidential election

Marcinkiewicz proposed that a government should begin t o be created on 10 October - one day following the first round of presidenti al elections. Before that date, teams from the PO and PiS would jointly prep are a program for the new government. "We can start this as of tomorrow," sa id Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. Following these announcements Donald Tusk propos ed that the serious talks concerning the creation of a new government begin with the meeting of himself, Jan Rokita and Jarosław Kaczyński and Lech Kacz yński from PiS. In this way PO would find out how serious PiS treats Marcink iewicz as the new PM. PiS spokesman Adam Bielan replied that Lech Kaczyński would not participate in the meeting, as his party does not want to mix nego tiations over the government with the presidential campaign. (Rzeczpospolita , pp. A1, A3) M.M.