Government defeat calls for vote of no-confidence in health minister
On Thursday parliament discussed a motion to dismiss Health Minister Mariusz
Lapinski, which was proposed by deputies from the Civic Platform (PO) and
Law and Justice (PiS) parties, who accused him of unjustified centralization
of the health service, purges in the ministry and revelations of false data
concerning the prices of medicines. " Everybody knows you're lying. But the
truth always comes out in the end," said Elzbieta Radziszewska from PO.
During the heated debate Lapinski refuted the accusations, blaming his
predecessors for the mess in the health service. He defended his actions by
saying he was having to clean up the problems left by the last government,
and said that he would take Radziszewska to the Parliamentary Ethics C
ommission and to court. Prime Minister Miller spoke in support of Lapinski,
and using their parliamentary majority defeated the motion. (Zycie, pp. 1,
3) M.K.
