2010.09.2006:05:00UTC+00PO's tie up with the left possible after 2011 poll: PM

News

• Poland's centrist ruling party Civic Platform (PO) could form a coalition government with the opposition leftists after next year's parliamentary election. Prime Minister Donald Tusk
• Tusk confirmed that his government would avoid radical reforms ahead of the election.
• The Government's main challenge now is to keep economic growth on track while starting to rein in a large budget deficit.
• While holding the door open for a possible post-election tie-up with the left, Tusk also accused the SLD of childish radicalism and militant anti-clericalism, saying that it lacked a coherent vision for Poland.

Quotes

• "(A coalition with the left) seems to me possible," PM  Donald Tusk as told to weekly Wprost magazine