The parliament in Poland surprisingly postponed a vote on a controversial amendment to the broadcasting law with the votes of the opposition.

It is not clear whether the meeting should resume on September 2 or September 15, the PAP agency announced on Wednesday.

A majority of 229 to 227 MPs had voted in favor of the opposition Peasants' Party PSL's proposal to postpone the meeting.

This is a fiasco for the national-conservative ruling party PiS, as it clearly has no parliamentary majority. Poland's government alliance had previously collapsed in the dispute over the broadcasting law. After Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki dismissed his deputy Jaroslaw Gowin, his group Porozumenie (Understanding) terminated its cooperation with the PiS.