President gives award to controversial SLD activist Stanislaw Szatkowski

President Aleksander Kwasniewski yesterday decorated Stanislaw Szatkowski, an activist with the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) from Olsztyn, and regional chief of his presidential election campaign. According to the citation, the medal was awarded for distinguished service with the local authorities and in social work. The proposal to award the medal to Szatkowski was submitted to the presidential office by speaker of Warminsko-Mazurskie voivodship and SLD member, Andrzej Rynski. Stanislaw Szatkowski came to public attention last year after he organized a Christmas Eve party at an Olsztyn school, at which the children were given Christmas parcels containing Szatkowski's speeches and proclamations, as well as a local SLD magazine. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.4) A.D.