Poland's ruling coalition to lose majority

Poland's ruling coalition is facing the loss of its parliamentary majority after three MPs quit Law and Justice (PiS), the coalition's dominant party. The three defectors, Zbigniew Girzynski, Malgorzata Janowska and Arkadiusz Czartoryski, left PiS citing disappointment with the party's new mining and energy policy. They also had problems with the Polish New Deal, the government's flagship investment and reform programme, according to their comments quoted by the news web service Onet. The three said they would form their own grouping in parliament called Polish Choice.