Caretaker administrator to rule Gmina Centrum until new council appointed

Deputy Interior Minister Jozef Ploskonka has been appointed to administer the Warsaw borough of Gmina Centrum until a new council is elected. The daily Rzeczpospolita has learned that the local government elections for Centrum would be held in a month's time. The new development comes after the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) ruled Friday that as of May 17, when the councilors agreed to disagree on the composition of the local government to administer the borough, Centrum was being run illegally. The new administrator has pledged to uphold the decisions of the illegal coalition of Freedom Union (UW) and Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which include the issuance of new identity cards and drivers licenses. (Rzeczpospolita, page A2) S.M.