Gilowska's comeback in doubt

Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who fired Zyta Gilowska a week earlier because of her alleged cooperation with the communist secret police, has asked her to return to his cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs. Marcinkiewicz came up with the offer after a court refused to carry out a probe of Gilowska's case on the grounds that she no longer held public office.

"I am analyzing this offer but I am very skeptical about this concept [of returning to government]," Gilowska told television channel TVN 24.

The Public Interest Commissioner had earlier announced that Gilowska might have lied in her vetting documents. The then-Finance Minister denied the allegations and called them blackmail with fabricated documents. Last Wednesday Gilowska told journalists that in 2004 and 2005 she was warned by a Civic Platform deputy that "an action based on forged documents is being organized against her." (Reuters)