Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska sacked

The internal ethics code of Law and Justice (PiS) requires that the politician be dismissed from their post. Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewcz said that both he and party president Jaroslaw Kaczyñski would welcome Gilowska back in the government again as soon as she had cleared her name. Gilowska refused to entertain such thoughts. There is speculation that the lawsuit was part of a power struggle within PiS. Gilowska had recently been under great pressure to resign so that no lawsuit would have to be filed, but she refused as she claims she is not guilty. The new Finance Minister is Pawel Wojciechowski, an experienced economist, who for the last three months was the economic advisor to the Prime Minister. He declared he would continue Gilowska's policies. (Rzeczpospolita, June 25-26, pp.A1-3; Gazeta Wyborcza, June 24-25, pp.1-4, 34) J.L.