Public figures appeal for urgent action to overcome political crisis

A group of intellectuals, professors and public figures, including Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Władysław Bartoszewski and Ryszard Kapuściński, published an appeal on the front page of Saturday's Rzeczpospolita. They called on politicians to treat the current political crisis with great seriousness and to quickly appoint a non-partisan government of professionals whose competence and integrity would not be in question and to draft a new election law with single-mandate constituencies. The appeal expressed great concern that the Sejm is unable to form an effective government, that the health care system is in turmoil, that Poland is not ready to take advantage of the EU funds at its disposal and also point to the need to address the unemployment problem. (Rzeczpospolita, May 29-30, p. A1) T.J.