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Polish government coalition splits up.
(From Agence France Presse)
Poland's center-left government coalition split apart after one the parties opposed a key measure on preparing for EU membership only three months before a referendum on joining the bloc.
Government spokesman Michal Tober said the coalition had broken apart after party leaders failed at a Saturday meeting to patch up their disagreements, with Prime Minister Leszek Miller demanding the resignation of the two ministers of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL), including its leader, Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kalinowski.
The meeting "confirmed that the subsequent functioning of the coalition would have resulted in a climate of friction, haggling and conflicts," Tober was quoted as saying by the PAP news agency.
The row was triggered Friday, when the PSL voted down in parliament a special tax to bring Poland's inadequate road system up to EU standards.
Miller's government took office in October 2001 with one of its main aims to get the former communist country into the European Union.
While Miller's government will not automatically fall, his Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and socialist Labor Union (UP) ally will have difficulty finding a replacement to the PSL's 42 lawmakers to keep its parliamentary majority.
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