Premier's national TV address: its getting better and is going to improve

One year after the Parliamentary elections Prime Minister Leszek Miller during his television speech on Saturday evening summed up his government's achievements. "My government has stopped the catastrophe, which was knocking on our door," he said. However, Miller seemed only to praise what he had achieved and ignored his government's shortfalls, while heavily criticizing the previous government of Jerzy Buzek. "We have accepted a draft of next year budget. It will be a budget of development and one of good hope. Next year will be better than 2002 and each following year will be even better," the Prime Minister said. He added that a year ago, we were all haunted by words like unemployment, the collapse of industry and crisis, which are no longer used now. Miller stated that his government has achieved a breakthrough in negotiations with the EU, and passed programs to improve the economy and well being of the public. He forgot to add that he replaced three ministers due to the low quality of their work. (Zycie, p. 5) M.M.