Government seems set to win October 15 confidence vote

Belka explained that he had chosen this date together with Sejm Speaker Józef Oleksy because a week earlier he will be participating in the EU-Asia summit. President Aleksander Kwaśniewski believes that Belka will win the vote and hopes that parliamentary elections will take place on the last Sunday of May 2005. "I think that the government will secure a vote of confidence because I highly estimate its achievements. The Prime Minister managed to accomplish everything that he said during his exposé " he said. Marek Belka added that he is currently holding talks with all the parties which supported him in June, and the indication are that they have no real reason to desert him now. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.F.