President-PO meeting fails to break political impasse

They also revealed that the President is inclined to support the opinion that the constitutional deadline for passing the budget expires at the turn of January and February. The Civic Platform leaders called their own press conference at which Jan Rokita declared that, "After the talks [with the President] I believe that unwanted early elections in Poland are even more likely." He added that he considered the President's "last chance" mission to be valuable but too late. Donald Tusk stated that there is no indication that Law and Justice wanted a coalition with the Civic Platform. Rokita stated openly, "Our main aim today is the victory in the election." (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A5)EB