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Polish governing coalition ends Polish ruling coalition collapses
(about 10 hours later)
Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has sacked his left-wing deputy, bringing an end to the four-month-old governing coalition. Poland's ruling conservatives are setting about forming a new government after PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he would sack his left-wing deputy.
The move - which could lead to early elections - comes in the middle of a row over next year's budget.
Andrzej Lepper had repeatedly criticised Mr Kaczynski's Law and Justice party over the budget.Andrzej Lepper had repeatedly criticised Mr Kaczynski's Law and Justice party over the budget.
He also criticised the Polish decision to send an additional 1,000 troops to the Nato mission in Afghanistan. Mr Lepper, a former pig farmer famous for organising farmers' protests, urged more help for rural areas and opposed sending extra troops to Afghanistan.
Mr Kaczynski said he would try to assemble a new parliamentary majority with breakaway members of Mr Lepper's party and another small rural based group within the next few days. The ruling coalition has only been in power for four months.
If that fails, he said, early elections, probably to be held in November, would be the only solution. Trading accusations
But fresh elections are unlikely to solve Poland's political crisis, says the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw. "I decided to ask the president to dismiss Andrzej Lepper," Mr Kaczynski said late on Thursday.
According to surveys, none of the major parties seems capable of winning a majority, our correspondent says. He said Mr Lepper had "gone back to his old practices of sowing discord".
In response, Mr Lepper accused the prime minister and his party of belittling him and not consulting him on major policy moves.
"They are not made for constructing, but for destroying. They will agree only with people who are on their knees before them," he said.
Mr Lepper is a populist who enjoys strong support in the country's poorer rural areas, the BBC's Adam Easton reports from Warsaw.
In recent days he has demanded increased public spending on social welfare, healthcare and pensions in next year's budget, our correspondent says.
Early elections
Mr Kaczynski said he would try to assemble a new parliamentary majority with breakaway members of Mr Lepper's Self-Defence Party and another small rural-based group, the Polish Peasant's Party.
Early elections, probably to be held in November, would be the only solution if that failed, he said.
But fresh elections are unlikely to solve Poland's political crisis, says our correspondent.
According to surveys, none of the major parties seems capable of winning a majority.