Kwasniewski meets SLD Senator's Caucus to discuss Senate abolition

President Aleksander Kwasniewski met on Friday with the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Senators' Caucus to discuss SLD's plans to liquidate the Senate. The President said he did not understand the leftist SLD wanting to introduce amendments to the constitution which is, in his view, "a real success" of the party. All the Senators present at the meeting supported the President's opposition to liquidating the Senate. "The thing that hurts us the most is the fact that the SLD is undermining the sense behind the Senate's existence. We are the guarantee of stability and the government's insurance policy," said Senate Speaker Longin Pastusiak. However, Prime Minister Leszek Miller on Saturday warned those SLD Senators who disagree with the the liquidation policy that they would not be allowed to take part in the coming parliamentary elections. Miller also remarked that those Senators who have now changed their minds on the matter should remember what they promised when running for their Senator's mandate. (Rzeczpospolita, June 15-16, p. A3; Rzeczpospolita, A3) A.K.