Government adviser intervenes in Kolodko-Piechota dispute

Elzbieta Chojna-Duch, an adviser to Finance Minister Kolodko admitted that both Kolodko and Deputy Economy and Labor Minister Jacek Piechota are right in their evaluations of the program to improve the state of public finances. On Wednesday, Piechota publically voiced an opinion saying that Kolodko's plan does not guarantee projected economic growth and argue that the reform, "For sure has no ambitions of being the economic program of the government." Meanwhile Chojna-Duch told Radio PIN that it also, "Does not guarantee many other things, for instance good weather," but simply names some goals and the ways they are to be achieved. She was also satisfied with the fact that other political parties want to participate in developing it, as it appears to be the last chance for saving public finances. (Parkiet, p. 5) M.M.