Justice Minister set to step down after revelation that he escaped crash prosecution

According to the Democratic Left Alliance's Krzysztof Janik the Minister will step down later today. Janik has disclosed that the Prime Minister already has a candidate for the post. According to Rzeczpospolita's unofficial source the candidate is Professor Roman Hauser, former president of the Supreme Administrative Court. Hauser's candidacy was considered in April when Belka was forming his new government. His candidature was then supported by Aleksander Kwaoniewski, but he refused to enter the government. The current Justice Minister Marek Sadowski decided to resign two weeks ago, after the media highlighted that he was a participant of a car accident nine years ago in which a woman was badly injured. A case against Sadowski could not be brought before the courts at the time because he had immunity from prosecution. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.F.