Łapiński looks set for parliamentary outing on Samoobrona ticket

Although these are only Gazeta Wyborcza (GW) speculations, Łapiński has so far visited Lepper's party's Warsaw headquarters several times and recently supported Samoobrona's confidence vote against Jerzy Hausner, the former Economy Minister. Samoobrona has been also promoting Łapiński's latest book in Self-Defense’s paper, Głos Samoobrony. The book deals with the author's attempts to deny previous accusations with respect to his decision to replace Sick Funds with the National Health Service (NFZ), which was later recognized as unconstitutional, as well as his expulsion from Leszek Miller's cabinet and later from Democratic Left Alliance. One of the members of Self-Defense revealed that his party sees strong links between their program and Łapiński's ideas and they like his problem-solving strategy pertaining to the national health service system. However, Łapiński himself refused to give any details. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.4) J.J.