Appointed Warsaw administrator impeded from taking control of district

After Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek replaced the leaders of Warsaw's Centrum district with a hand-picked administrator on Thursday double governance continues. Administrator Andrzej Herman is having problems taking over because the officers do not heed his orders and even broke into their sealed offices on Friday evening. However, on Sunday both councilor Jan Wieteska and Mayor Pawel Piskorski adopted a more conciliatory tone calling for both governing bodies to issue parallel administrative rulings and let one of them be selected by the Local Government Appeal Collegiate, which overlooks municipal financing. The current showdown has also ignited a conflict between the President and Prime Minister. In a bitter exchange of letters on Saturday Buzek snubbed the President for his intervention and the language of his letter calling it unacceptable. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 8) P.S.