Reconstructing the cabinet

Andrzej Aumiller from Self-defense (SO) has been unveiled as the new Minister of Construction. Aumiller will replace Antoni Jaszczak, also of Self-defense.

At the end of September, SO announced that Jaszczak had accomplished his mission in the Ministry and recommended that Andrzej Aumiller become the Minister's successor. 

Prime Minister Kaczyński told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that Jaszczak had taken significant steps to see that apartments would become available to Polish citizens with low and medium income. "I hope that this process will be continued," he added.

Aumiller also told PAP that the government's election promise to build three million new apartments or homes in the next eight years is manageable. In order to achieve this, however, the new Minister said all bureaucratic barriers facing investors would have to be removed.

The new Minister is a former Deputy of leftist party Unia Pracy. He is known from his work in the PKN Orlen investigative commission. Initially he was a deputy in the commission before eventually becoming its head.

In June 2005, he left Unia Pracy and began his collaboration with SO. During the 2005 election he ran for parliament on an SO ticket, but he did not win enough votes. In addition, Aumiller is also currently SO's candidate for Mayor of Poznań.

"I do not know yet if I will withdraw from this election. The decision will be made after consultations with the party and Deputy Prime Minister Lepper," he told Gazeta Wyborcza.