Presidential candidate Kaczyński under fire for doing a shoddy job as City Mayor

A day before the session, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz of the Civic Platform (PO) sent an open letter to the media criticizing Kaczyński and announced the PO will not vote in favor of accepting the council budget. "The most significant problem is the failure to fulfill the planned investments of the city which were in the budget," read the announcement. PO representatives went on to say that Warsaw is wasting its chances which are put forward thanks to economic growth and EU accession. "What have the city inhabitants gained from the zł.6.3 billion spent by the city authorities last year? There is no new commercial investment, and not even a single additional bus or tram," said Wojciech Szymborski of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). The Polish Families League (LPR) also attacked Kaczyński and broke its coalition with PiS in Warsaw. These political attacks come a few days after the latest opinion polls put Kaczyński well ahead of the other candidates in the race to become national president. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.K.