Signature on Telecom law delayed until this week
The new national telecommunications law that was supposed to be signed by President Aleksander Kwasniewski last week will not be signed until Aug. 15, the legal deadline for the president's signature, an employee in the information bureau of the Chancellery of the President said Friday.
Krystyna Milewska, of the chancellery's information office, said that Kwasniewski would sign the law, but that the president's testimony in a vetting court last week was one of the probable reasons for the delay. Kwasniewski was tried on allegations that he was an agent for the communist-era secret police, a charge that if proven would have prohibited him from running in the October presidential election. Kwasniewski spent two days in court last week, Milewska said, but was cleared of the allegations on Thursday. Milewska added that another reason for the delay in the signing of the telecom act could have been that the president was still on his official holiday.
