It's official - the Prime Minister defects to the PD

He will then campaign in favor of the party regardless of the President's decision whether or not to accept his resignation. "On May 5 I will be politically free and I will be able to fully devote myself to the campaign of the new party," Belka said on Saturday. But in fact he has already begun to openly support the PD. The Saturday meeting of the Democratic Party in Łódź, which Belka attended, looked like a campaign rally. "This is the party whose main aim will be to create a social and liberal program and to constantly implement a reform program for this country," Belka argued. Meanwhile, Belka's decision to join the PD was severely criticized by many parties. "I think the Prime Minister simply fell in love this spring," said Tomasz Nałęcz from Polish Social Democracy (SDPL). Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) leaders Jarosław Kaczyński and Jan Rokita accused Belka of running away from "the sinking SLD ship." (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) A.F.