Senior politicians seem to have lost touch with parliamentary politics

A group of 20 deputies from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and 13 from the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) submitted a draft to the Speaker of the Sejm, the country's lower parliamentary chamber, to create the S rodkowopomorskie voivodeship. However, neither Prime Minister Leszek Miller nor any of the leaders of SLD knew about the plans to create such a voivodeship. "I was very surprised by this draft," said the Sejm's Speaker, Marek Borowski. "It is not known when the draft will be debated by the Sejm, as it has not been put on the parliamentary timetable," he added. Meanwhile, the Polish Families League (LPR) wants to dismiss Marek Borowski, claiming that he blocks the drafts of new bills prepared by their party. The LPR's list of charges against Borowski is long and includes allegations that the Sejm Speaker has not permitted a debate on the dismissal of National Bank of Poland (NBP) president Leszek Balcerowicz. (Zycie, p. 5) P.W.