Commissioner's fight for control of Warsaw government becomes physical

In Warsaw's Srodmiescie district office a suspended Freedom Union (UW) councilor struck her interim superior from Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and landed in hospital. Councilor Teresa Wyszynska slammed manager Anna Wysocka in the face with a briefcase after she demanded deputies return all cellular phones, laptops and official cars. Wysocka also informed police about what she termed an illegal regular session held by the suspended councilors yesterday. In the morning the appointed Warsaw government commissioner Andrzej Herman talked to Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. Some speculated that this talk was about replacing Herman with councilor Andrzej Porawski from Poznan. "It was a normal, routine conversation," said a commissioner spokesman. gmina Centrum board of directors protested against, "the acts of violence," of the commissioner. The commissioner does not control the whole gmina as Ochota and Wola are still in control of managers from UW. They are ignoring the decisions of the commissioner that they should stop working. "The actions undertaken by Andrzej Herman of forcing the boards and management boards of districts are against the law," wrote members of the Board. (Rzeczpospolita, page A3) M.M.