The meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. Warsaw time in Poland’s lower house of parliament, but leading groupings from the governing liberal-centrist Civic Coalition said they would not attend, calling the idea unserious.
“Serious politicians will not take part in unserious talks,” Civic Coalition deputy chair Katarzyna Piekarska said.
PiS, which has 194 of the 460 seats in the lower chamber, argues that last weekend’s narrow presidential victory by conservative Karol Nawrocki was a “red card” for Tusk’s pro-EU coalition and justifies installing an interim Cabinet of experts to steer the country through security and economic challenges.
Party leader Jarosław Kaczyński first floated the proposal on Monday.
Błaszczak told MPs in a message posted late on Tuesday that “everything must be done so that Poland is governed effectively and efficiently until the parliamentary elections,” adding that a cross-party Cabinet could “restore stability.”
Confederation, an 18-seat far-right grouping courted by PiS in recent days, said it had received no formal invitation by Tuesday night.
Analysts say PiS would need defections from at least two medium-sized parties to oust Prime Minister Donald Tusk' government.
Tusk plans to seek a parliamentary vote of confidence next Wednesday to shore up the ruling coalition.
(jh/gs)
Source: PAP, RMF24, Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta.pl