Poland may resign from representation in the EU Convention Presidium

Jozef Oleksy, a former Prime Minister, will not be a candidate for a post in the Presidium of the European Union Convention. He said that Poland would pr obably support the candidate from Slovenia or Lithuania. At present Oleksy i s representing the Polish Sejm in the EU Convention, while the Polish govern ment is represented by Danuta Hübner, the head of the Office of the Committe e for European Integration (UKIE), and the Senate is represented by Edmund W ittbrodt from Bloc Senate 2001. Opposition parties criticized Oleksy's failu re to run as a candidate, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party (PiS) described this as "Irresponsible behavior, which is shameful for his party." Kaczynski did not like the fact that there would be a Slovenian instead of a Polish representative in the Presidium. (Zycie, p. 7) A.D.