In the tug-of-war over the vote on a controversial broadcasting law in Poland, there was a surprising about-face: the parliament in Warsaw resumed its session on Wednesday evening. Previously, the opposition had caused a postponement of the vote on Wednesday evening with 229 to 227 votes. But parliamentary president Elzbieta Witek from the national conservative ruling party PiS had the vote repeated - because she had not given a date for the postponement of the meeting. This time, 229 parliamentarians spoke out against postponing the plenary session.
It is likely that parliament will deal with the amendment to the Broadcasting Act late on Wednesday evening.
In the dispute over the change in the law, the government alliance of the PiS had previously collapsed.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had dismissed his deputy Jaroslaw Gowin, whose group Porozumenie (Understanding) ended the cooperation with the PiS.
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.