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“Now any possibility is possible: both a minority government and early elections,” Piotr Muller, a spokesman for the right-wing government led by the Law and Justice Party (PiS), told the country’s media.
Influential PiS politician Marek Suskis went even further, telling commercial television TVN24 that “the coalition partners ended the coalition” when the parliament on the animal rights law was voted differently from his party.
“Today we have a minority government,” he said, adding: “Our former coalition partners should choose things.”
A PiS spokeswoman told the Onet news site that “party leaders will meet next week to decide the future of the government.”
The next regular parliamentary elections in Poland will be held in 2023.
On Friday, the Polish parliament passed an animal rights law that enraged fur producers and kosher meat producers and divided the ruling right-wing alliance.
The two junior partners in the ruling three-party coalition refused to vote in favor of the bill, outraging Jaroslaw Kaczynski, an influential PiS leader who had introduced the bill.
Known for his love of cats, Kaczynski threatened to remove coalition partners from the government during a planned government shakeup or even call snap elections.
A potential PiS minority government would control 197 of the 460 seats in the lower house of parliament.
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