SDPL flirts terms on which it might agree to support Belka's government

The president wants to persuade the SDPL to give up its demand to hold autumn parliamentary elections and suggests February 2005 as the date for a general election. Kwaśniewski wants to organize a meeting between the Democratic Left Alliance and SDPL leaders this week. Meanwhile, one SDPL leader, Andrzej Celiński, has proposed another solution, namely that the SDPL could support Belka, provided that he agrees to face another Parliamentary vote of confidence in October, and if he wins it, the election will take place in March 2005. Another SDPL leader, Tomasz Nałęcz, called Celiński's plan "interesting" as it allows to break the political impasse in securing support for the new government. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4; Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) E.B.