No position in Cabinet to be offered to former deputy prime minister

After former Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Tomaszewski announced on Monday his return to the Solidarity Election Action (AWS), it is now all but certain that a position in the current Cabinet, from which he departed after his lustration, or screening, investigation began, will not be offered to him. Government spokesman Krzysztof Luft said that during a meeting between Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek and Tomaszewski on Tuesday both excluded the possibility of his return to the current government. At the same time, observers speculate that he may be planning to participate in AWS's upcoming election campaign. National Conservative Alliance (SKL) leader Jan Maria Rokita indicated that this was one possibility, saying that Tomaszewski may head the party's election team. Tomaszewski told journalists that AWS's political future depends on its cooperation with the Freedom Union (UW) and Civic Platform (PO) parties. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) A.Z.