PiS wants to decommunize street names

In an interview yesterday with Polish Radio, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski declared that, "Many communists still have streets named after them. It cannot remain so." He added that the government would draft a special bill which will order the renaming of streets and squares with more appropriate patrons. He also warned that, " If local governments do not do so, the government will do it." So far, only local governments have the right to name streets and squares, but they have to take into account the opinion of the local communities. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 3) E.B.