In control, but increasing losing his nerve, Miller apologizes to PO

Prime Minister Leszek Miller apologized to all Civic Platform (PO) deputies for suggesting that some of them are in contact with the criminal underworld, explaining that he was basing his accusations on newspaper reports. In a recent Sejm meeting concerning the case in Starachowice, where allegedly Interior Ministry officials warned their party colleagues against a planned police raid, Miller accused PO deputy and former Warsaw mayor, Paweł Piskorski, for his connection with gangsters. The head of the PO parliamentary club, Jan Rokita has publicized a note written by Justice Minister, Grzegorz Kurczuk, according to which Piskorski was never mentioned as a person accused of being connected with the Pruszków mafia. (www.onet.pl) A.K.