AWS makes last ditch attempt to prevent imminent collapse of coalition

Senior coalition partner Solidarity Election Action (AWS) has pledged to present a high profile document to Freedom Union (UW) outlining a proposal aimed at salvaging the government. However, most deputies from both AWS and UW assert that the collapse of the coalition is imminent. The influential speaker of the Sejm Maciej Plazynski, tipped by many as the successor to Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, is the latest to appeal to UW to reconsider their position and return to talks. UW leader Leszek Balcerowicz says unless AWS revokes the appointment of a commissioner charged with administering the Warsaw borough of gmina Centrum, agrees to amend the labor laws and ensures transparency of public finances, UW regards any talks as irrelevant. (Rzeczpospolita, page A1) S.M.