PO makes a PiS offering

Tusk said that PO would vote for PiS's budget and support the minority government in the most important issues if PiS ended its coalition with the League of Polish Families (LPR) and Self-defense. PO's conditions for cooperation also included early elections in the spring and an amendment to the constitution preventing people with criminal records from running in Sejm and Senate elections. PO's proposal met with the coalition members' indignation. Roman Giertych (LPR) called a special press conference in order to criticize Tusk. Ludwik Dorn (PiS) said that opposition was not entitled to make decisions about who should or shouldn't be in the cabinet. Prime Minister Kaczynski, however, said that he was happy at the signs that the destructive war waged between PiS and PO could end. (Rzeczpospolita, December 9-10, p.A1, A3) M.M.