SLD appears to be in an uncontrollable downward spiral

This result means it is now ranked alongside Law and Justice (PiS) and the Polish Families' League (LPR). President Aleksander Kwaśniewski expressed hope that the SLD leadership would take the signal into serious consideration but cautiously added, "There are a lot of polls ahead of us before the 2005 general elections". Another party member, Jolanta Banach, stated that as long as the Alliance is treated like a labor office and party offices as trampolines to further politicians administrative careers, then support for the SLD's would continue to fall. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4) M.M.