No end to the Polish government crisis

"If insults exchanged among partners of a majority reflected the state of a coalition, the Polish government would have already fallen", considers the journalist Jurek Kuczkiewicz. "And yet, while the partners of the Polish coalition -the Kaczynski twins' PiS [Law and Justice Party], Self Defence, the popular peasant party, and the far-right League of Families- are virtually spitting in one another's faces all day long, few still believe in the likelihood of a rupture in the coalition. The three parties, not doing well in the polls, fear the elections like the plague, Self Defence and the League may even fail to survive the elections. ... The shrewdest commentary has come from Lech Wałęsa, who was a dismal president [between 1990 and 1995] but is capable of the best political one-liners: 'Even with a tractor, it is impossible to tear these people away from power.'"

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