Pensioners Party leader backs Olechowski in place of SLD coalition candidate

Secretary General of the ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Marek Dyduch, will submit a motion today to remove Tomasz Maminski, the head of Pensioners National Party (KPEiR) from the Alliance's Parliamentary Club. The party decided to support Andrzej Olechowski of the Civic Platform (PO) as candidate for mayor of Warsaw, a move which was judged by Dyduch as disloyal to the SLD-UP coalition. "We do not like people who do not stick to agreements. It's not us who asked for the coalition with KPEiR last year. They came to us and that is why their behavior is unjust," the Secretary General said. Prime Minister, Leszek Miller is supporting the motion. According to Maminski, the coalition agreement only related to last year's elections. "I talked to the SLD authorities about this year's elections and we have not come to any agreement. As a result we felt free to independently enter the elections and support Olechowski," Maminski explained. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.K.