Rywin affair opens the door to the debate on Constitutional change

The leader of the Civic Platform's Parliamentary Club, Jan Rokita, has no doubts that the Constitution should be amended in 2004 so as it would, "Relate to the new way of passing laws...Conclusions should be drawn from the Rywin scandal. We have to stop the bad practices of governance, but the Democratic Left Alliance caucus should not be replaced by another one," Rokita said. The Civic Platform (PO) has already announced the need to change the Constitution a month and a half ago, but was overwhelmed by Law and Justice, which stated that the Constitution needed to be totally rewritten as it was still a symbol of continuity of governance between the communist regime and the democratic state. Recently, the relations between the two parties cooled, but on Saturday PO's Donald Tusk was trying to convince his party that together with PiS they have growing chances of forming a government after the 2005 Parliamentary elections. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7) M.M.