Premier continues to throw all his weight behind Hausner's plan

Prime Minister Leszek Miller suggested that he would step down if the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) does not give its go-ahead to the restructuring plan drafted by Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner. On Polish Radio Three, Miller said that following the consultations on Hausner's budget cuts, he would summon the party's National Council so it can vote on the document. "The rejection of the plan will trigger far-reaching consequences. The government would be incapable of performing its tasks if one of its most essential projects was rejected," Miller said. At the same time, he added that he does not want this statement to sound like blackmail, and added that he was disgusted with the statement of the SLD's leader in Podkarpacie, Krzysztof Martens, who said that Hausner's program is good for the country but lethal for the party. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.Z.