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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the PIS party, on the left and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, on the right. Stock Photography.
The ruling right-wing coalition in Poland has reached a new agreement, which has stopped a looming government crisis. A controversial animal rights law divided the ruling coalition last week.
Details of the deal between the ruling Law and Justice (PIS) party and the two smaller coalition parties have not been made public and it is not yet clear whether PIS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski will formally join the government.
– We have a stable government, we have a stable parliamentary majority, we have a program, says Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (PIS), who together with Kaczynski spoke when the agreement was signed.
The Animal Rights Act prohibits the raising of fur animals and the export of kosher and halal slaughtered meat and was passed last week. But far-right parties, the Confederation and the SP, like PIS Agriculture Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, refused to vote in favor, despite threats of being expelled from the coalition. The vote came at the same time as a government shakeup, and the PIS threatened to cut the number of ministerial posts controlled by its coalition parties by half, which could have made the PIS the only minority ruling party.
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