Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski won a reprieve Tuesday when a disgruntled coalition partner backpedaled on a threat to leave the government -- a move that would have likely brought down the administration.

Leaders of the Samoobrona (Self-Defense) party had threatened to pull out of the governing coalition as retribution for Kaczynski's decision Monday to dismiss party head Andrzej Lepper from his posts of deputy premier and agriculture minister in the wake of a corruption scandal.

But Samoobrona's parliamentary group, which hold 46 seats crucial to Kaczynski's majority, gave the prime minister its support Tuesday -- though the part did set a number of conditions.

"Samoobrona is staying in the coalition, conditionally, as a parliamentary group," Lepper told reporters on Tuesday.