SKL makes alliance with OP official, despite its presence in AWS-led gov't

Leaders of the newly created centrist political grouping Civic Platform (PO) and the Conservative-Peasant Party (SKL) signed a declaration of cooperation yesterday, outlining in very general terms the two entities' planned common undertakings, despite the fact that SKL party members still head the Defense and Agriculture ministries in the current AWS-led government. This apparent contradiction notwithstanding, SKL leader Jan Maria Rokita reiterated that his party would not turn its back on Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.4) A.D.