Parliament rocked by protest from deputy Janowski at sale of Stoen to RWE

Treasury Minister Wieslaw Kaczmarek on Tuesday signed a final agreement to sell an 85% stake in Warsaw energy distributor Stoen for zl. 1.5 billion to RWE Plus of Germany. The Polish Peasants Party (PSL) declared that this broke the coalition agreement between the Left Wing Alliance (SLD), Labor Union (UP) and PSL. However, the SLD claims that none of the PSL Cabinet ministers objected to the agreement. Nevertheless, this sparked a major conflict in which Polish Family League (LPR) deputy Gabriel Janowski occupied the Sejm rostrum and refused to leave it until the Sejm discussed the issue. He demanded that Prime Minister Leszek Miller and Minister Kaczmarek declare the agreement with RWE as invalid, as well as resign from the idea of selling the oG-8 energy group. "I asked Minister Kaczmarek not to sign this deal. And out of the blue this disgraceful decision has been taken. The heart and most profitable part of the national energy system has been sold," Janowski declared. The Sejm Marshal Marek Borowski, asked the deputy to leave the rostrum, which he refused to do. Borowski asked journalists to leave the chamber and it is unclear if Janowski is continuing his occupation strike, or if he was removed by force. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.