Civic Platform unveils new slogan as parties gear up for final election push

With 26 days to go before parliamentary elections, the political parties are gearing up for a final push to woo voters. Civic Platform (PO) has unveiled its new slogan, "A chance for Poland", which will soon be appearing in television commercials and on billboards across the country. Meanwhile, leader of Samoobrona, Andrzej Lepper, has accused politicians of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and Polish Peasants Party (PSL) of trivializing the election campaign. Commenting on the budget problem, he called for the government to resign after leading Poland into such a huge deficit. In another development, the court of appeal has decided to postpone the hearing into the libel case brought by the Law and Justice (PiS) party against the weekly Wprost magazine. The judge ruled that the defense lawyer had not been properly authorized by the magazine to act on its behalf. (Zycie, p. 6) A.K.