Deputy Interior Minister's resignation appears likely

Rzeczpospolita has unofficially leant that if Justice Minister Grzegorz Kurczuk signs the motion to lift the immunity of Deputy Interior Minister Zbigniew Sobotka, who is suspected of having tipped off his party colleagues in Starachowice of a police raid on them, then this may force him to resign. "He will announce the decision himself, but in fact Interior Minister Krzysztof Janik tried for two days to convince him, the Prime Minister and other SLD politicians that this would be the best solution," said one of the Sobotka's colleagues. The deputy minister is expected to take the decision today. Meanwhile, he must also deal with the crisis in the Warsaw public prosecutor's office, where unpopular Prosecutor Zygmunt Kapusta forced his subordinate, to resign for still unclear reasons. This is the fifth time that Kapusta has forced his colleagues to leave. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, A5) M.K.