Local election defeat threat spurs Self-Defence initiative

This idea was immediately criticized by the leader of the Civic Platofrm (PO) Jan Rokita, who turned to the Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz to halt this initiative.  "We have to block this, we will be trying to convince all members of local governments to turn them against this initiative," announced Rokita, who said that this idea was born due to Self-Defence's fear of losing the local government elections. Despite strong criticism from the opposition and numerous representatives from local government members, Self-Defence is hoping to see support from coalition partners, who are still careful about commenting on the idea and claim that a decision in this case will be made in due time. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7) A.K.