Senior Kwasniewski aide indicates the Enfranchisement Act could be vetoed

A senior aide to President Aleksander Kwasniewski has described the recently passed Universal Enfranchisement Act, aimed at allocating state assets to the citizens for free, as a gimmick by the rightist parties to deceive the citizens. He criticized the Act saying it was not only unjust, but also impossible to implement. "Any attempt to implement even a part of it," he said, "would be unjust as it would transfer municipal dwellings to sitting tenants who are already well-off and got into those houses through connections with authorities of the communist yesteryears." If the President and the Senate approve the Act, the ownership of about 3.5 million dwellings could be transferred to people that did not pay for them. (Rzeczpospolita page A2, Gazeta Wyborcza, page 18) S.M.