Borowski leads breakaway group of deputies in SLD

A group of at least 30 deputies have aligned themselves with the Parliamentary Speaker Marek Borowski and are ready to create a new left-wing party - said SLD's Secretary General Marek Dyduch. Leading SLD politicians hastened to add that this was not an official statement and final decisions will be made on March 28, after Miller returns from a key EU summit. Deputy Bogdan Smoleń revealed that the new party's name would be Polish Social Democracy and it will field its own candidates for elections to the European Parliament. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 2, 4, 5) D.W.