Polish Parliament Speaker, Deputies Discuss Dissolving Assembly

Polish Parliament Speaker, Deputies Discuss Dissolving Assembly

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Polish Parliamentary Speaker Marek Jurek and his deputies will meet today to debate calling an extraordinary session to vote on dissolving the assembly and holding early elections.

Jurek, a member of the ruling Law & Justice party, will convene the meeting at 11:30 a.m. in Warsaw with the five deputies who represent all political parties after Citizens' Platform, the largest opposition party, demanded an extra parliamentary session ahead of the next scheduled sitting on Oct. 10.

The demand came after a Law & Justice official was taped offering inducements to an opposition lawmaker to switch sides. Law & Justice is seeking to regain a majority by asking lawmakers of former coalition partner Self Defense and the Polish Peasants' Party to support it after Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski fired Deputy Premier Andrzej Lepper, the head Self Defense.

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