Former AWS minister announces moral tone for new center-right party

Aldona Kamela-Sowińska, a former treasury minister in Jerzy Buzek's AWS gov ernment, on Saturday announced she is setting up a new center-right politic al party - Initiative for Poland (IDP). "We need something normal. The usual honesty, decency, the usual keeping one's word. And everything else we like among our families, friends and business associates - respect," said Kamel a-Sowińska during a press conference. The actual launch of the party will t ake place in the first half of June. According to the former treasury minis ter, the main aims of IDP will be to bring down unemployment to EU levels of around 7%, depoliticize the economy, a change in the approach to state prop erty, as well as recognizing SME's as the basis for economic growth. The pa rty also envisages the introduction of a 20% corporate income tax, a unified VAT rate of 15%, zero taxes for those of the lowest income, and an 18% flat rate tax for others. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) A.K.