A meeting between prime minister Donald Tusk and the Palikot Movement (Ruch Palikota) party’s leader is to be held today, as the government and its junior coalition partner PSL (Polish People Party) have not managed to reach the agreement on pension reform. That forced PO’s Tusk to turn to the liberal Palikot Movement party for support to push through the controversial reform. Poland’s third force however has its own demands on the project, which are closer to the PLS than to Tusk’s party. Palikot’s Movement is also getting as much mileage out of social issues as the PSL. “We hope to talk the prime minister into one, maybe two changes, that would soften the impact of raising the retirement age,” said the spokesman for Palikots’ Movement.
