Kwaśniewski replies to Self Defense; "I did not break the law"

"There is a threat that the state might disintegrate. It is possible that the country will not have a Prime Minister, some Sejm deputies want to remove the president from office," said President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Self Defense leader Andrzej Lepper has appealed to the President to resign and Self Defense deputies want Kwaśniewski to face the State Tribunal on charges of not informing the prosecutor about Rywin's corruption offer and agreeing to send Polish troops to Iraq. The President assured he had never breached the law during his term in the office and denied the charges that he was in any way engaged in the so-called Rywingate scandal. Kwaśniewski added that the accusations are part of wider political games. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) E.B.