SLD barons favor Oleksy and not Belka as the next PM

"A second government with Oleksy as premier will become a fact anyway, but one needs to wait until Belka finally understands that he is not able of putting together a government which could win the support of a majority of Sejm deputies," said one senior SLD member. Party leaders were trying to convince the participants that it was in the interest of the party to create a coalition, which would allow Parliament to work until spring 2005, when the first effects of economic revival and EU integration would make itself felt. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6; Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) M.M.