WARSAW, Nov. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Poland's minority government under the leadership of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was approved on Thursday after winning a vote of confidence in parliament.

    The 460-seat lower house of parliament endorsed the newly-elected cabinet by 272 to 187 with no abstentions.

    The cabinet, mainly comprising members of Marcinkiewicz's conservative Law and Justice party, also received support from three other parties, the far-right League of Polish Families (LPR),the Samoobrona, and the Peasants' Party.

    The approval came seven weeks after parliamentary elections, which gave the Law and Justice party 27 percent of the vote.

    Analysts say the new cabinet, lacking a majority in the parliament, could be plagued by instability in the longer term.

    Marcinkiewicz appealed to other parties in the parliament to back his cabinet in a crucial policy speech before the vote.

    "If you back this ambitious program, which is important for Poland, then ... we will mend the state, we will change our country," he said.

    Marcinkiewicz promised in the speech to push forward the Polish economy with "pragmatic policies."

    "Our program is very pragmatic because the economy needs pragmatic, not ideological, solutions," Marcinkiewicz told the lower house of parliament.

    He also pledged to revive the labor market which is plagued by an 18 percent unemployment rate and cap the 2006 budget deficit at30 billion zlotys (8.8 billion US dollars).

    "Economic development must go hand in hand with job creation," said Marcinkiewicz.

    At the core of the policy address was the pledge to overhaul the state, which Marcinkiewicz insisted was plagued by corruption.

    On the foreign policy front, Poland was to further pursue integration into the European Union and close ties with the United States, said Marcinkiewicz.

    Poland needed a balance between the European Union and the United States to guarantee economic development and national security, he noted.

    However, he failed to mention when Poland should enter the euro-zone. The country's former left-wing government had aimed to adopt the common European currency by the end of the decade.

    The new leader also said his government aimed to develop agriculture and rural areas.

    He pledged Poland would remain a country free of genetically-modified crops while bio-fuel development would be given priority. Enditem