New Treasury Minister cleans house and removes Janowski from the building

The first action taken by Aldona Kamela-Sowinska after assuming the seat of Treasury Minister was the removal of Sejm deputy Gabriel Janowski from the ministry building. After a two-week long protest action, Janowski was forced to leave by the police. Kamela-Sowinska also announced her desire to remove Grzegorz Wieczerzak from the position of PZU Zycie president and recommence talks with Eureko on PZU privatization agreement, from which the ministry withdrew. The new minister intends to negotiate with France Telecom (FT) as well. She pointed out that the company has never officially resigned from taking over an additional 10% of Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. shares this year. If FT decides to sign an agreement, privatization revenue for this year could possible yield zl.18 billion, according to her. Finally, Kamela-Sowinska denied rumors that the State Treasury intends to sell another 21% of PZU shares to Eureko consortium and BIG BG. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B1) M.K.